Strange Attractor Salon: From Animism to Zos

Antony Clayton asks what lies beneath the city streets, followed by Boom: a film that explores the confrontation between a wealthy woman and penniless poet.

Ken Hollings on adapting to interplanetary travel, with visuals and a live synthesiser soundtrack from The Asterism. Followed by a screening of The Stuff, the story of a mysterious, mind-devouring dessert that is discovered by a pair of miners.

Mark Pilkington introduces an audio-visual history of British occultism, followed by Marat/Sade, a film about the persecution and assassination of Jean-Paul Marat.

Tom Bolton, author of London's Lost Rivers makes an illustrated presentation on the rivers’ locations and their subsequent disappearance, followed by a screening of The Island of Dr Moreau.

Dr David Luke remembers the future and other anomalies from the annals of parapsychology along with a screening of The Manster where an American reporter in Japan is transformed into a two-headed monster.

Mark Blacklock considers how Victorian Britain discovered the joys of multi-dimensional reality, followed by a screening of Mr Freedom.

Artist, visionary and occultist, Austin Osman Spare’s career began in Edwardian celebrity and ended in Fifties obscurity, followed by a screening of Zardoz.

Artist and researcher Eleanor Morgan examines the mythical and material entanglements between humans and spiders followed by a screening of Duet for Cannibals.

Dr Robert J. Wallis gives a talk on shamans, animists and prehistoric rock art, followed by The Bed Sitting Room in which a handful of bizarre characters struggle to carry on amongst the ruins around them.

Writer and witchdoctor Stephen Grasso charts the influence of African Diaspora magico-religious traditions on music, followed by a screening of The Little Richard Story.