The Mystery Project

Art ~ Magic ~ Mysticism

The Flowers of St. Francis

by admin on August 4, 2013, no comments

Not only is Roberto Rossellini’s 1950 film The Flowers of St. Francis just outrageously beautiful, not only does it have tons of charm and that yummy scratchiness in the audio track, but it’s also surprisingly funny.

Shamanic Cinema: Ben Russell’s River Rites

by Amanda on July 6, 2013, no comments

“The real skill of the practitioner [of magic] lies not in skilled concealment but in the skilled revelation of skilled concealment. Magic is efficacious not despite the trick but on account of its exposure.” — Michael Taussig, from the essay Viscerality, Faith, and Skepticism: Another Theory of Magic River Rites exposes three realms of existence, […]