Ritual Bartzabel Working, performed by Brian Butler and Noot Seear

To occultist Brian Butler, aesthetics are Elevating mystic practices to the status of artor elevating art to the status of ritualButler s films and performances are themselves Orphic ceremonies and Satanic rites. Pentagrams, triangles, liturgical hoods in red, white, and black, these iconographic shapes and costumes have a sacred as well as aesthetic function. The arresting imagery and tranceinducing editing of his latest short film are no exception. Butler s mentor and collaborator Kenneth