Canadian Premiere
“This is the age of Satan! Satan rules the Earth!” Scott Cummings’ film proclaims before opening on the live birth of a baby goat that is later breast-fed by a hooded woman in a dark barn. Should that sound shocking, Realm of Satan is actually a humanizing portrait of the modern Satanist; less a traditional documentary and more of a non-didactic series of composed vignettes depicting rituals that range from the macabre to the mundane: A man paints his face in the kitchen while his wife dries the dishes… A magician prepares a performance… A BDSM orgy… Satanic karaoke.
Anton Levay wrote in The Satanic Bible, “The real Satanist is not quite so easily recognized as such.” Cummings shows this to be true, contrasting prosaic day-to-day lives of quiet domesticity with dark, disturbing rituals practiced by night. Realm of Satan is an experiential film that peeks behind the veil of Levayan Satanism and invites us to draw our own conclusions about its congregation.
Community Partner
High Priest Peter H. Gilmore, High Priestess Peggy Nadramia, Magistra Templi Rex Blanche Barton
USA
2024
In English, German, Spanish, Swedish with English subtitles
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Credits & Director
Executive Producer
Joe Poletto, Sam Roseme, Cathy Tankosic
Producer
Caitlin Mae Burke, Pacho Velez, Molly Gandour
Screenwriter
Scott Cummings
Cinematography
Gerald Kerkletz
Editor
Scott Cummings
Production Design
Joseph Dudley
Original Music
Steve Everitt
Scott Cummings
Scott Cummings is a New York-based filmmaker and editor whose work has screened at MOMA, Centre Pompidou, Visions du Réel, IFF Rotterdam, and CPH: DOX. His 2014 medium-length film Buffalo Juggalos won AFI Fest’s Grand Jury Prize and Cinema Eye Honors for Outstanding Achievement in Short Nonfiction Filmmaking. Named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film”, Cummings’ 2017 documentary Adversary, produced by Field of Vision, won Best Documentary at the Dallas International Film Festival and was a Vimeo Staff Pick. He has edited films such as Never Rarely Sometimes Always and Wendy. His 2024 feature debut, Realm of Satan, received support from Sundance Institute’s Art of Nonfiction and Rooftop Films.
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