Witchcraft
An encounter with a modern witch’s rituals unfolds into a meditative journey, touching on rationality, belief and healing.… >>>
- Duration: 21 Min.
- Director: Laura Heinig
About 100 years ago Max Weber identified the demystification of the world through science and rationality. The program PARACAPITIALISM doubts that as it exhibits how capital and technology enter ever new liaisons with the supernatural. Witchcraft seems to be a neoliberal vocation; new up-to-date devices regularly summon unknown spirits. But even beyond those spiritistic circles, „the eerie“ (Mark Fisher) resonates. Common ghosts haunt our globe as orphaned properties, or the magically self-regulated market captivate us more than ever. (Theresa George)
An encounter with a modern witch’s rituals unfolds into a meditative journey, touching on rationality, belief and healing.… >>>
Using both an artistic and ethnographic approach, we are led to a seance in a basement gym outside of Toronto, Canada. A group meets up to speak to ghosts and spirits. This is a fairly unmasked expression of the haunting character of the hyperreality Western culture has become but simultaneously feels like a type ur-cultural act of coming together.… >>>
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