In this Super 8 film converted to 16 mm, form and background are caught in a continuous and vibrant interplay, accentuating the grain of the texture en playing with superposition, transforming every shadow and every ray of light into a tangible object.
Until he died of AIDS in 1994, Derek Jarman remained personally and artistically very close to the band Throbbing Gristle, whose members adorned this film with a long soundtrack - improvised as per their usual modus operandi. The combination of sound and image gives this production a strange and magical aura, which we project in Nova in its original format.
+ Lucifer Rising
Lucifer Rising, the last enchanting grand symphony of Kenneth Anger, is an hommage to Thelema, the occult sect developed by Aleister Crowley, and its main characters. The movie, which after many earlier aborted attempts was finally funded by the British National Film Finance Corporation, is filmed in Britain and Egypt and features Marianne Faithfull as Lilith, Jimmy Page as the Man Holding the Stella of Revelation and film director Donald Cammel as Osiris. The soundtrack was realised by Bobby Beausoleil, after Kenneth Anger rejected Jimmy Page’s original compositions.
+ Invocation of my Demon Brother
A Crowleyan psychedelic experimental short film, as an expression a cultural rebellion against the false values of occidental values, featuring strobe-like erotic imagery with several shots of the Rolling Stones in performance and an original synthesizer score by Mick Jagger.
