MAGICK HASTINGS

Magick Hastings is a film that describes and uncovers an alternative Hastings that goes back centuries yet very much describes the town and it’s inhabitants as they are now. We were involved at an early stage of it’s production in discussions about the representation of some of the ideas the film explores and were commissioned as consultants and animators to bring these elements to life as sequences within the film. Magick Hastings premiered in Hastings historic Smugglers Caves at Halloween 2024. The full film will be presented online in the near future.

“Magick Hastings is a poetic exploration and an esoteric mystery tour of the town’s occult layers, with film makers Michael Smith and Maxy Bianco introducing viewers to tarot seers, trance-inducing witch doctors, and local occult dandies and adepts living in the spirit of Uncle Aleister, characters who embody the town’s eccentric, left-field spirit. Stops include a consecrated, working Russian Orthodox chapel where the Holy Spirit is invoked each Sunday, hidden in a suburban Edwardian back garden, and a chapel of an altogether darker nature, underneath the West Hill and the Jack-in-the-Green’s Maypole, where the idol of a Celtic god of the underworld hewn out of the subterranean rock troubles the shadows of the Smugglers Caves, and is said to disturb the goings on there.“