The Magician's House

Deborah Stratman

2007 | 00:05:45 | United States | English | Color | Stereo | 4:3 | 16mm film

Collection: Single Titles

Tags: Experimental Film

Both a letter to a cancer stricken, alchemist-filmmaker friend, and a quiet tribute to the vanishing art of celluloid, The Magician's House is full of ghosts. Including that of Athanasius Kircher, inventor of the Magic Lantern or "Sorcerer’s Lamp". The music, La lutte des Mages (The Struggle of the Magicians), was composed by Armenian mystic Georges Gurdjieff and Thomas De Hartmann. Gurdjieff thought of man as a kind of "transmitting station of forces." To him, most people move around in a state of waking sleep, so he sought to provide aural conditions that would induce awareness.

Part of The Paranormal Trilogy.

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Prizes + Awards

Honorable Mention, Onion City Film Festival, 2008

Exhibitions + Festivals

Chicago Underground Film Festival, 2013

Wisconsin Film Festival, 2009

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