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BUFF18 Presents: Sympathy for the Devil: The True Story of the Process Church of the Final Judgment
Director: Neil Edwards in Attendance!
Featured Commentary: John Waters, George Clinton, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Gary Lachman, Robert Irwin, Gaia Servadio, Simon Wells
The psychic well of the late 60s and early 70s was tapped by many an Aquarian-age, neo-Jesus movement; one of the more enigmatic cults of flower powers shadow side was The Process Church of the Final Judgment.
Founded in London by a charismatic, young pair of former ScientologistsRobert DeGrimston and Mary Ann MacLeanThe Process worshiped an un/holy quadrangle of Satan-Christ-Lucifer-Jehovah as a means to an enlightened end, a concept that confounded non-believers to the point of regarding them simply as Satanists. They wore a lot of black, had an alluring sense of design, and a gravitas that drew in satori-seeking, vulnerable young jet setters.
What is The Process? There are over a quarter-million Google results that attempt to answer this question, ranging from apocalyptic prophets, satanic acolytes, and death worshippers, to splinter-group Scientologists and Helter Skelter aiders and abettors.
Countercultural icon Ed Sanders describes them as an English occult society dedicated to observing and aiding the end of the world by stirring up murder, violence, and chaos in his authoritative account of Charles Mansons career, The Family, a chapter-long sensational assertion hes later legally obliged to retract in re-printings of the infamous tome.
Accused of influencing Bobby Kennedys assassination and the Son of Sam killings, processeans were no stranger to controversy. But really, what is The Process? In Neil Edwards comprehensive and thoroughly entertaining documentary, former members of the obscure religious group are given the chance to answer themselves.
Preceded by:
DOUBLE-BLIND NO.1
The Double-Blind Experiments, Australia, 2 min.
Five VFX artists go to town experimenting with fine-art depictions of satanic familiars.
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LocationThe Harvard Film Archive (View)
24 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
United States
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