Date/Time
Date(s) - 06/04/2025
19:30 - 21:30
Location
Electric Palace cinema, Hastings TN34 3ER
Magick Hastings + Filmmaker Intro
The final resting place of Aleister Crowley, our town holds many secrets. Uncover the esoteric underbelly of Hastings with this fascinating new local doc.
Director: Michael Smith and Maxy Bianco
2024 / UK
Strange Frames presents Magick Hastings: a poetic exploration and an esoteric mystery tour of the town’s occult layers, with film makers Michael Smith and Maxy Bianco introducing viewers to tarot seers, trance-inducing witch doctors, and local occult dandies and adepts living in the spirit of Uncle Aleister, characters who embody the town’s eccentric, left-field spirit.
Stops include a consecrated, working Russian Orthodox chapel where the Holy Spirit is invoked each Sunday, hidden in a suburban Edwardian back garden, and a chapel of an altogether darker nature, underneath the West Hill and the Jack-in-the-Green’s Maypole, where the idol of a Celtic god of the underworld hewn out of the subterranean rock troubles the shadows of the Smugglers Caves, and is said to disturb the goings on there.
With introduction from filmmaker Michael Smith.
Strange Frames is a new film club that celebrates the offbeat, grotesque and arcane, examines the unexpectedly transgressive and revels in the strange frames of cinema. Exploring the 20th century’s most important storytelling medium through the lens of folklore, myth and legend.
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