19 Mar 2009
Brush of Baphomet
A look at the artwork of Aleister Crowley.
The Man We Want to Hang
"The Man We Want to Hang" is a 12-minute short, consisting of Anger filming borrowed paintings done by legendary and controversial occultist Aleister Crowley.
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