One of the largest film festivals and large-scale cultural event that introduces citizens to the most relevant of the world of music, modern art, media, street culture, sports and new technologies. The mission of the festival is to shape the cultural agenda and open to the general public documentary films as a new genre of entertainment.
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September 23, 2014
Broken by Lesbian Bed Death
Produced, directed, and edited by Cavan McLaughlin, this beautiful video was shot on Sony's F55. This song is about empowerment and rising up ...
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May 24, 2016
Kyrie Eleison by Denigrata
An experimental piece of collaborative audiovisual art, shot on S16 film. Featuring a cameo from author and magus, Alan Moore, the primary set...
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November 18, 2018
Closing lecture at Occulture Conference
"Occulture: Reading the Revealed Face of the Concealed." Cavan McLaughlin gives the closing presentation at Occulture Esoteric Conference, Berlin
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December 22, 2018
ReInState: A Mirror Ritual
A collaborative art film developed from the performance art piece of the same name, originally conceived and performed by Stefanie Elrick at T...
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January 10, 2019
Re-visionary Mythmaking at Trans- States 2
Cavan's presentation on "Re-visionary Mythmaking" at the second Trans- States conference, The Art of Revelation.
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February 26, 2020
Talking Occulture at Breaking Convention
Breaking Convention has published the lecture Cavan gave at this year's biennial conference, "Psychedelics, Occulture and the Mediation of Ent...
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March 29, 2020
Work on Upcoming Indie Feature Film
This stunning image, of teeth savagely rending flesh, is from work we recently completed for esoteric artist and occult indie-filmmaker, Orrye...
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June 13, 2020
This is Not The Story I Wanted to Tell You
River is a writer with a story to tell. A story about who we are, things we have observed, the reality of change, and the likelihood of surviv...
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July 20, 2020
Ancient Texts From Our Digital Vaults
We have been going through a lot of old files here at HQ. This has resulted in the remastering of some old films and the discovery of some...
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