Ritual Movies

A group of friends get trapped in a haunted abbey with no easy way of escaping.

"Ritual reversals" or "rituals of rebellion" are concepts used for mock rituals performed in Southern and Eastern Africa. During fertility rituals,...

With its recognisable bright red cap with white spots, the fly agaric (amanita muscaria) seems like the archetype of the fairy tale toadstool. But it...

A hard-headed tomboy spots the unlikely solution to all her problems in an all-male religious ritual.

A non-narrative short film tracking the movement of a flock of women through a megalithic landscape. They appear to be working, enacting a cryptic...

Josh’s beloved Grandpa Joe has passed on... and they never even got to say goodbye. So, Josh’s wife, Lori plans to do a séance as...

A young couple, Jana and Sami, prepare a religious ritual so that Jana can get in contact with her late friend.

Five Japanese carpenters came to Boston that summer to reconstruct a Kyoto silkweaver's 150 year old townhouse that had been packed in crates and...

A woman wakes up bound to an altar, helpless as she is transformed into a flesh and blood statue of Santa Muerte by two elderly Brujos whose sole...

Through a rare immersion in an Andean community, the film explores what it really means to "resolve a conflict" in a society where violence is...

A coven of witches gather in Vermont in a feminist collective’s transporting short that shakes off patriarchal scrutiny during the...

Lyrical tragicomedy. The eyes of the young hero, who will go through the rite of circumcision, shows the life of a Kyrgyz village on a holiday day.

Stone Hatch documents the rare sighting of the birth of a stone circle. From it leaving the chamber of the Pictish souterain to its migration across...

Set during the final ten minutes before an eighteenth birthday, the film follows a young protagonist on the threshold between childhood and...

The Pharmacratic Inquisition is a provocative film from Gnostic Media that makes the argument that virtually all of the mythology, symbolism, and...

Chilling paranormal portmanteau following a researcher who stumbles across a collection of disturbing video evidence she has obtained from a...

A private webcam video - never intended to be shared - turned into an emotionally raw video installation. This short film is intentionally unedited,...

A collection of videos that spotlight all kinds of terror "tragedies", not limited to psychic phenomena such as fights, violence, and passing by. It...