Mercurial Fragments
"A trip through perception in search of mercurial entities."
Magic as contemplation through distortion. An investigation of the Tarot and other mystical symbols in search of images occult to common perception.
"A trip through perception in search of mercurial entities."
Magic as contemplation through distortion. An investigation of the Tarot and other mystical symbols in search of images occult to common perception.
Magic as contemplation through distortion. An investigation of the Tarot and other mystical symbols in search of images occult to common perception.
When a group of friends recklessly violate the sacred rule of Tarot readings, they unknowingly unleash an unspeakable evil trapped within the cursed cards. One by one, they come face to face with fate and end up in a race against death.
A thrilling journey through legends, belief and folklore, this film goes behind the scenes with the British Library as they search to tell that story through objects in their collection, in an ambitious new exhibition: Harry Potter: A History Of Magic. J.K. Rowling, who is lending unseen manuscripts, drawings and drafts from her private archives (which will sit alongside treasures from the British Library, as well as original drafts and drawings from Jim Kay) talks about some of the personal items she has lent to the exhibition and gives new insight into her writing, looking at some of the objects from the exhibition that have fired her imagination.
Queen Elizabeth I visits late 1970s England to find a depressing landscape where life has changed since her time.
During World War II in North Africa, a group of British commandos disguised as Italian soldiers must travel behind enemy lines and destroy a vital Nazi oil depot.
An All-American football player's dreams to play in the NFL are halted when he is falsely accused of rape and sent to prison.
The story of the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First, the endless attempts by her council to marry her off, the Catholic hatred of her and her romance with Lord Robert Dudley.
Set in the 1920s French Riviera, a master magician is commissioned to try and expose a psychic as a fraud.
Nicky, an accomplished con artist, gets romantically involved with his disciple Jess but later ends their relationship. Years later, she returns as a femme fatale to spoil his plans.
American professor John Holden arrives in London for a conference on parapsychology only to discover that the colleague he was supposed to meet was killed in a freak accident the day before. It turns out that the deceased had been investigating a cult lead by Dr. Julian Karswell. Though a skeptic, Holden is suspicious of the devil-worshiping Karswell. Following a trail of mysterious manuscripts, Holden enters a world that makes him question his faith in science.
A modern-day witch uses spells and magic to get men to fall in love with her, with deadly consequences.