Kenneth Anger & The Making Of Lucifer Rising 1970-81

Kenneth Anger & The Making of 'Lucifer Rising' 1970-81

After his sell out talk on Kenneth Anger & the Occult 60's, Gary Parsons returns to Helgis to tell the follow up story of the making of Anger's epic 'Lucifer Rising', a 28 minute film that would take him 11 years to complete. It's a tale of Crowley, curses & crime (with a heavy dose of Rock'n'Roll thrown in as well). Along the way we meet a cast of characters including; director Donald Cammell, Marianne Faithfull, Bobby Beausoleil and The Manson Family and Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page and hovering over this the Great Beast himself Aleister Crowley. It's a heady brew of the occult and film making taken to the edge as the decade plays out around it.
Welcome to the Seven Seven Seventies

Gary Parsons is a film maker for Thelema Films and a graduate in film from Goldsmiths College London. His previous talks include 'Witchcraft Documentaries of the 1970's' & 'Aleister Crowley & the Cinema of Magick'. He has been interviewed about his research in Dazed Magazine among others.

Starts 8pm

The talk will be followed by a screening of the documentary "Anger Me"