For this exhibition, Los Angeles-based artist Francesca Gabbiani explores the subjects of witchcraft and sorcery. She browsed through the collections of the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts at the Hammer, and UCLA’s Departments of Special Collections at both the Charles E. Young Research Library and the Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library. Gabbiani pursued her research with an eye for mysterious and macabre images, illustrations of poisonous and deadly plants, as well as representations of unearthly figures like saints and fairies.

Offering a description of himself for the program of a 1966 screening, Kenneth Anger stated his 'lifework' as being Magick and his 'magical weapon' the cinematograph. A follower of Aleister Crowley's teachings, Anger is a high level practitioner of occult magic who regards the projection of his films as ceremonies capable of invoking spiritual forces. Cinema, he claims, is an evil force. Its point is to exert control over people and events and his filmmaking is carried out with precisely that intention.

Aleister Crowley was an English occultist, writer, mountaineer, poet, possible spy and yogi. He was an influential member of several occult organizations, including the Golden Dawn, the A∴A∴, and Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.), and is best known today for his magical writings, especially The Book of the Law, the central sacred text of Thelema. He gained much notoriety during his lifetime, and was dubbed "The Wickedest Man In the World" and often attacked by the media.

Last spring, I had the pleasure of visiting Crowley’s Cefalu home, which Anger spoke briefly about during his presentation. Crowley lived there for a short time in the 1920’s, before being kicked out of Italy for some sort of hogwash. The paintings on the walls of this home are rumored to have been made by Crowley himself. -An excerpt from Lisa Anne Auerbach's blog, The Meow

The World Famous Museum of Death was founded in San Diego June 1, 1995. Originally located in San Diego's 1st mortuary's in a building once owned by Wyatt Earp. Evolving from the controversial art gallery the Rita Dean, founders James Healy and Cathee Shultz realized the void in the Death education in this country and decided to make Death their Life's work.

RealD Cinema is a digital stereoscopic projection technology. It does not require two projectors, unlike some older 3D stereoscopic projection technology.

A fantasy featuring the Birnkrant collection of extremely rare vintage Mickey Mouse toys; many of which when filmed in ultra close up with moving riveted jaws, seem charmingly menacing.