GOD’S MACHINE ”TURNING” the Ages : EGYPTIAN SKY GODS SUSPENDED ON POLES
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Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages
William S Burroughs
. Originally filmed in 1922, this version was updated in the mid 1960’s
to include english narration by William S Burroughs. The writer and
director Benjamin Christensen discloses a historical view of the witches
through the seven parts of this silent movie. First, there is a
slide-show alternating inter-titles with drawings and paintings to
illustrate the behavior of pagan cultures in the Middle Ages regarding
their vision of demons and witches. Then there is a dramatization of the
situation of the witches in the Middle Ages, with the witchcraft and
the witch-hunts. Finally Benjamin Christensen compares the behavior of
hysteria of the modern women of 1921 with the behavior of the witches in
the Middle Ages, concluding that they are very similar.
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