“A group of magicians assume divine identity in a Dionysian revelry.”
With its title borrowed from Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the film, subtitled Lord Shiva’s Dream, is an unprecedented attempt to materialize Aleister Crowley’s theological practice. The cast also includes writer Anaïs Nin, a close friend of Anger’s. The first copies of the film contained sequences intended to be projected on three different screens, an idea inspired in part by Abel Gance’s 1927 film Napoléon.
