Sunday 1 November at The Foundry, 86 Great Eastern Street London EC2A 3JL.
From 7pm. Entry free.
Join us this Day of the Dead for an evening of cinematic ritual performance.’Visions of the Al Azif‘ is a cinematic meditation of the altered states explored by the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred, author of the Necronomicon. The Al Azif (H.P. Lovercraft’s famed Necronomicon) was a massive collection of the madness induced poetic hallucinations of its author. Similar in structure to other Sufic works of the period the Al Azif speaks of unheard of eons before man walked the earth.
Populated with demons and other creatures of questionable age who had come to earth seeking refuge from the emptiness of space. The evening’s performance will be the first screening of these rare and illusive documents of the visionary states that must be obtained in order to communicate with the Great Old Ones of mankind’s forgotten past. These detailed organic abstractions illustrate the vivid hallucinatory states and madness inducing transcendental experiences that led to the author’s untimely death.
Visuals by Raymond Salvatore Harmon
Live sound by RSH, Mark Pilkington (Raagnagrok), Andy Sharp (English Heretic).