Now Available: Michael Alexander Morris’s First Hermanubis: Initiation

Posted June 17th, 2025 in New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, New Films, News / Events

First Hermanubis: Initiation (2023, 40 minutes, b&w, sound, 16mm or digital file)

First Hermanubis is the first installment of a planned longer series of films using the figure of Hermanubis, a Hellenistic-Egyptian deity combining Hermes and Anubis, as a starting point for thinking about hybridized identities, magic and the occult. This first episode focuses on the story of my family, Greeks who came to the United States from Turkey in the early 20th Century, my relationship to growing up in the Greek Orthodox Church, self-initiation into magic, and relocation to Cairo, Egypt.