Witchcraft - to think about
April 12th 2007 06:53
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"It's not just fairies at the bottom of the garden, Witchcraft has a past which includes torture devices, fantastical confessions and orgy scenes, along with artworks relating to witchcraft and satanic rituals".
Charlotte Cripps brings us this preview as below:
"The silent film composer Geoff Smith will perform a live soundtrack on three hammered dulcimers to the shocking 1922 silent drama-documentary Haxan: Witch-craft Through the Ages. This is Smith's third live cinema event after his atmospheric scores for The Cabinet of Dr Caligari in 2003 and Faust in 2005.
Benjamin Christensen's intense psychological masterpiece was banned in Europe when it was released in the 1920s. It is a series of dramatised scenes of the persecution of witches in the Middle Ages, including demonstrations of torture devices, fantastical confessions and orgy scenes, along with stills of artworks relating to witchcraft and satanic rituals.
"The original score to the film by the Danish composer and violinist Jacob Gade was a substandard orchestral score, full of clichés, that didn't relate intimately to what was happening in the film," Smith says. "In the 1968 shortened version, the William S Burroughs narration and a score by the jazz violinist Jean-Luc Ponty spoilt it. I didn't feel that either of these soundtracks did the film justice.""
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This sounds quite shocking and it has obviously been controversial, but opposite views also challenge the brain and continue to do so long after the confrontation is over.
So, for those who are particularly interested in these things this will challenge them.
Even for those who are not, becoming aware of these influences cannot help but sharpen up our brains.
I notice I get very few comments lately and that is because I am not without challenging people's comfort zones, but that is to their discredit, not mine.
I sometimes feel I am being attacked by witches myself, not that that bothers me.
I really do wonder about the lack of debate and acceptance of opposition to one's views, other than mine, of course.
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Comment by Kleonaptra
Kalikapsychosis
Rather than being 'attacked by witches' perhaps it would be better read as "victim of a witch hunt'?
Comment by katyzzz
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I especially liked the last two lines. Perhaps we have a common link in that we are too much individuals to be accepted by groups, there is always a sense of not quite belonging nor of wanting to.
Your 'alternative' ideas hold for me a certain fascination but I think the science just has not caught up with the senses.
Some people really do have exceptional talents which we really don't understand, but many have their own small stories to tell.
I think it could often be, as it must have been for primitive cultures first seeing an aeroplane, is it a bird? is it some of our Gods?. I'm sure there are others who would be able to come up with a fast analogy infinitely superior to my own.
Now, just to be very facetious, may God or the Pixies go with you.
I shall understand it if you hit me, but I'll non-Christian like, retaliate, all in the interests of a little fun and lightening the load, which somehow I feel is heavier for you than for me.
Mrs. M's love and stuff,
katyzzz
Comment by Kleonaptra
Kalikapsychosis
And one great day in the future, the entire human race will know that magic and science are really divisions of the same thing.