2024-25: The Chakra Programme
For our inaugural season, our films were curated around the seven chakras, with the colour palette of every movie corresponding with the hues and spiritual significance of each chakra.
June - The Red Root Chakra
We launched SECRET CEREMONY by diving into the strange and sensual world of Dario Argento’s Suspiria. Our screening, at Bvlgari Hotel London’s private cinema, was a night of champagne, aura readings, and baptismal rituals. We also hosted a screening of the 2016 horror-comedy The Love Witch at the Garden Cinema, which offered an evening of 60s-inspired glamour.
July - The Glowing Orange Chakra
We headed for a screening on a London rooftop, because we’re the kind of risk-loving rebels who are willing to tango with the British weather. Our film of the evening was the sexploitation satire Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, perfectly suited to the orange chakra’s link with free-flowing sexual energy.
September - The Yellow Manipura Chakra
Translating to ‘city of jewels’ or ‘resplendent gem’, this chakra deserved the sparkliest of celebrations. We partnered with The Diamond Lab, a a jewellery boutique on Bond Street, for a screening of Alfred Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief, which concluded with a romping parlour game inspired by the most glamorous jewel theft of all time.
October - The Green Heart Chakra
Our screening at Regent’s Street Cinema took us further into an underworld of crime and secrecy with Park Chan-Wook's The Handmaiden, an opulent psychological thriller that contrasts and complements the heart chakra’s associations with love, balance, and compassion.
November - The Blue Throat Chakra
For this chakra, tied to truthful communication, we chose a film filled with obfuscation, crossed wires, and kept secrets. At the Regent’s Street Cinema, we screened David Lynch’s Blue Velvet, a once-controversial, now-classic story of lust and mystery, an event which culminated in the giving away of an unusual party favour.
