Four-week class taught online via Zoom

Sundays, February 2 - 23, 2025
1-3 pm ET (NYC Time)
$100 Paid Patreon Members/ $125 General Admission

Please note: All classes will be recorded for those unable to attend live

American "cinemagician" Kenneth Anger (1927-2023) was and remains a powerful source of inspiration for many generations of experimental artists and magicians. Anger's meticulous work in personal and poetic films—and also his chronicling of dark aspects of Hollywood history in the legendary bestsellers Hollywood Babylon 1 and 2—make for a fascinating character that defies cultural definition. His life-long admiration for British occultist Aleister Crowley, and also his active weaving in of Crowley's "thelemic" ideas and concepts into his own mind-opening films have created a Gesamt oeuvre that could definitely be called “talismanic.” Filmaker Carl Abrahamsson, the teacher of this class, met Anger for the first time in Hollywood in 1990 and kept in touch with him all the way to the end. This friendship led to, among other things, Abrahamsson’s documentary Cinemagician: Conversations with Kenneth Anger (2019).

Over the course of four sessions, Abrahamsson will talk about Anger's personal history, his films, and also the relevance and symbolism of Aleister Crowley. The sessions will also contain outtakes from Abrahamsson's documentary work and other never before seen video documentations. There will also be time for questions and discussions about Anger's films and magic.

Carl Abrahamsson is a Swedish author and filmmaker who specializes in Occulture in general and in occult movies in particular. With books like Meetings with Remarkable Magicians, Occulture, Source Magic, Anton LaVey and the Church of Satan and In-between the Lines, Abrahamsson has carved out a niche that exists right in the eye of the storm—in-between the radical underground and the commercial mainstream.