the filmmakers.
Magickian - Supernatural/ceremonial as practitioners of beliefs, rituals, and actions which are said to control and manipulate beings and forces and encompass a wide variety of long, elaborate, and complex rituals of Magick. This was popularized by the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, a famous occultist secret society founded in 1887.
Thomas Edison.
(1847-1931)“Wizard of Menlo Park”
Inventor of the kinetograph, phonograph, incandescent lightbulb, carbon telephone transmitter among many others. Acquired 1,093 patents in his lifetime.
Secret Spiritualist who also used hypnogogic states to problem solve. (lucid dreaming) Attempted the creation of the Spirit phone for after death communication.
Maya Deren.
(1917-1961)Ukrainian-born American experimental filmmaker. She was also a poet, dancer, choreographer, writer, and photographer.
Films of note:
Meshes of the Afternoon 1943
The Witches Cradle 1943
At Land 1944
Ritual in Transfigured Time 1946
Meditation on Violence 1949
Kenneth Anger.
(1927-2023)Filmmaker, artist, and ritual Magickian from Los Angeles California.
Films of note:
Fireworks 1947
Scorpio Rising 1963
Inauguration of the Pleasure Done 1954
Lucifer Rising 1972
Rabbit’s Moon 1972
Derek Jarman.
(1942-1994)English Film Director, Artist and Author
Films of note:
Jubilee 1978
The Tempest 1979
Sebastiane 1976
The Angelic Conversation 1985
In the Shadow of the Sun 1981
Curtis Harrington.
(1926-2007)American experimental and horror film and TV director
Films of note:
Wormwood Star 1956
NightTide 1961
Who Slew Auntie Too? 1971
The Killing Kind 1973
Ruby 1977
Albin Grau.
(1884-1971)Artist, Owner of Prana Films Production Company
Production designer and Producer of the 1922 film Nosferatu
Occult Member of Fraturnitas Saturni
Alejandro Jodorowsky.
(1948-)Chilean- French filmmaker and artist. He is also a novelist, screenwriter and poet.Films of note:
The Severed Heads 1957
El Topo 1970
The Holy Mountain 1973
Santa Sangre 1989
Psychomagic, An Art That Heals 2019
Genesis P-Orridge.
(1950-2020)Singer- Songwriter, founding member of Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth occult group, fronted the experimental band Psychic TV, Throbbing Gristle
Anthony Balch.
(1937-1980)
English Director and Distributor
Films of note:
Horror Hospital 1973
Secrets of Sex 1970
Ghosts at Number 9 1982William Burroughs.
(1914-1997)
American Beat writer and visual artist.Dream Machine
Brion Gysin.
(1916-1986)
British painter, writer, sound poet, performance artist and inventor of experimental devices.Dream Machine
Ian Sommerville
(1941-1976)
technician, computer programmer.Dream Machine
Muscha.
(1951-2003)
Born Jürgen Muschalek is a German painter and visual artist.
Films of note:
Decoder 1984
Humanes Töten 1980
Ira Cohen.
(1935-2011)
American Poet, publisher, photographer and filmmaker.
Films of note:
The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda 1968
Kings With Straw Mats 1986
Brain Damage 2006Brian Butler.
Artist and film producer. Technicolor Skull with Kenneth Anger "is an experiment in light and sound, exploring the psychic impact of a magick ritual in the context of an improvised performance"Films of note:Night of Pan 2009
The Dove and the Serpent
The Brush of Baphomet (Producer) Kenneth Anger 2009
Orson Welles.
(1915-1985) American actor, director, screenwriter and producer. He has worked in radio, theatre and film. Citizen Kane 1941
The Journey into Fear 1943
The Stranger 1946
The Lady from Shanghai 1947
Macbeth 1948
Cecil Williamson.
(1909-1999) "British screenwriter, editor and film director and influential English Neopagan Warlock. He was the founder of both the Witchcraft Research Center which was a part of MI6's war against Nazi Germany, and the Museum of Witchcraft."Hangman’s Warf 1950
Soho Conspiracy 1950
Harry Smith.
(1923-1991) American polymath. Artist, experimental filmmaker, folk record collector, and neo-gnostic bishop. Smith won a Grammy for his folk music anthology record.
Heaven and Earth Magic 1962
Early Abstractions 1939- 56
The Magic Mushroom people of Oz 1962