Dangerous Minds pal Brian Butler has a new short film that’s part of a film festival coming up in Los Angeles soon. Brian was a producer on the Disinformation series with me a while back, helming two of the show’s more memorable segments: the feuding Satanists and Rocketboy, the real life superhero/half cat. He also introduced me to Uncle Goddamn. Brian also contributed the great essay on Marjorie Cameron, Cameron: The Wormwood Star to my Book of Lies anthology. For these reasons and more, I shall be forever grateful. The video clip below is a shorter version of Night of Pan that was made for a Beijing arts festival, the full version will be shown at the Projections festival. It’s pretty striking, I think you’ll agree!

From the press release:

Brian Butler?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s Night of Pan Premiers in LA at Projections Festival, January 16 at Roberts & Tilton

Los Angeles, CA ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äú Noted filmmaker, artist and musician Brian Butler (http://www.brianbutler.com) will premier his short film, ?¢‚Ǩ?ìNight of Pan?¢‚Ǩ¬ù in Los Angeles on January 16 at 7:30pm at the opening of Projections, a festival of rare and hard to see films including other directors such as Spike Jonze, Harmony Korine, Jean-Luc Goddard, and Miranda July . Projections was curated by Aaron Rose an artist, film director, writer, musician, and independent curator most noted as the co-curator of the successful museum exhibition and book Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Art & Street Culture which toured the world through 2008.

Projections takes place at the Roberts & Tilton Gallery, 5801 Washington Boulevard, between La Cienega Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue, in Culver City, California from January 16 ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äú February 20, 2010. In addition to screening on January 16, ?¢‚Ǩ?ìNight of Pan?¢‚Ǩ¬ù will also be screened in a loop at the gallery on February 18, 2010.

?¢‚Ǩ?ìNight of Pan?¢‚Ǩ¬ù is a seven and a half minute film featuring film auteur Kenneth Anger and actor Vincent Gallo. The film has been screened in various versions internationally ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äú Beijing, Lisbon, Cannes, Athens, Rome, Berlin and elsewhere, but never in Butler?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s base, Los Angeles.

In the film, Anger, Gallo, and Butler depict an occult ritual that symbolizes the stage of ego death in the process of spiritual attainment.

Brian Butler is a multidisciplinary artist who creates works around dark magical themes. He had worked extensively as a producer on director Kenneth Anger?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s recent work. Additionally he has written for Dazed & Confused and performs along with Anger in the band Technicolor Skull.

That screenshot at the top of this post looks uncannily like Vince Noir from the Mighty Boosh

Nico, I thought the exact same thing.

vincent gallo reminds me of someone you would hear arguing over the definition of “antifolk” on a bus on the one fucking day you forgot your ipod!

Looks like Butler has turned this devil worshiping nonsense into a weekend thing thanks to a little help from Mr. Gallo and Mr. Anger.  Looks like rubbish.

It’s not meant to be understood, it’s meant to be felt x