Film Spells x BACII present CINÉRITUAL: DEAR ABYSS— A Cinema Ceremony!

7th House Screenings is proud to welcome Film Spells — a workshop and screening series for ciné-psychics , and BACII — a loss, grief, and healing organization — for a very special evening of transformative cinema ritual as they present DEAR ABYSS, a CINÉRITUAL!

DEAR ABYSS is an omnisensory, cinematic poem — a ritual journey through Death’s elemental realms. This experimental film explores cycles of death and renewal, inviting embodied integration amidst collective grief. Through image, sound, scent, and invocation, the theater becomes a space for transformation.

As the centerpiece of the ceremony, Arianne Ayu Alizio (Film Spells) and Mangda Sengvanhpheng's (BACII) short film Dear Abyss will be screened. The audience will not only witness, but participate. You'll be called to surrender to the Dear Abyss in real time through breath, memory, gesture, and written offering.

Your seat will hold simple spell ingredients to be activated throughout the screening. As we move through the film, you'll be guided to breathe, invoke, and remember — tracing our own passages of release and renewal, holding those we've lost and all we wish to cultivate. The ceremony will end with a cathartic procession from theater to courtyard, closing our circle under the night sky. Cross the threshold between cinema and ceremony, grief and creation, self and collective. Become a living film. A communal spell. ✦

Please email [email protected] or phone 323-663-2167 with any questions.

Arianne Ayu Alizio is a poet, filmmaker, and capricorn many times over. They received The Poetry Project’s 2022 Brannan Prize and was a top 10 finalist for Palette Poetry’s 2023 Rising Poets Prize. Their film La Mirage debuted at the 2013 Brooklyn International Film Festival and was recently acquired by Empowerhouse. They’ve screened and performed at St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, Institute of American Indian Arts, BLUM, PRS, Garel Fine Art Gallery, plus many rooftops, farms, bookstores, and bars. They studied Film Production at NYU and are currently at CalArts for a dual MFA in Film Directing & Creative Writing. You may also know them as the founder of Film Spells, a workshop and screening series for ciné-psychics.

Mangda Sengvanhpheng is an artist, death doula, and the founder of BACII - a platform that focuses on loss and grief while providing services and offerings for individuals, communities, and organizations that renew our engagement to life. Her life and death work is guided by her Lao last name, which means “the light of the full moon.” Mangda was an awarded recipient of Reclamation Ventures grant for under-represented leaders making pathways to addressing grief and loss and her work has been featured in VICE, Vogue, Architectural Digest, NY Mag’s Curbed, Brydie, Chacruna Institute and more.

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