Raymond Harmon - The Philosopher's Stone (2008)

 

 

Starring Jacob Andrew Myers
Introducing Isobel Julianna Harmon

Score by Bog

A Faustian nightmare of head twisting proportions. A dark psychedelic journey through the gothic haze of black magic and forbidden alchemy. When a mad scientist cum sorcerer fails in his quest for eternal life the path leaves him falling into the abyss of Jung's vast sea. Inspired in equal parts by early Expressionist cinema and the story of Dr. Albert Hofmann's discovery of LSD this film is a hallucinatory nightmare of drug induced madness and cerebral mania.

The Philosopher's Stone tells the story of Jacob Fausstman, a scientist and early alchemist who searches for the key to curing man of the disease of death. In his frustration Jacob stumbles onto another path to achieve his goals. Turning to the dark arts Jacob conjures the demon Mephistopheles and is given the key to eternal life. But his perceptions of 'life eternal' and the nature of his existence comes into question once he has obtained his desire for true knowledge.

Base in equal parts on the Faustian archetype and the biographical story of Dr. Albert Hoffmann's accidental discovery of LSD, The Philosopher's Stone is an homage to early German Expressionist cinema and the psychedelic visualizations of drug culture. The score is equally mind altering. A drawn and quartered sludge of metalesque rituals, random time signatures, and quasi dimensional grooves.
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