Love, Will, and Wisdom Commentary & Screening at Templehearth

AWARDS & EVENTS

Gigi Morrison

1/26/20252 min read

Image by Ashara Mayim

Three years after its premier, The Award Winning Love, Will, and Wisdom continues to be a celebrated work within the Temple of Witchcraft community. On February 1st The Temple of Witchcraft's Templehearth After Dark is "getting a makover", according to Moderator Ashara Mayim, thanks to the longstanding documentary work. Resident guildmember and video artist River VC has been invited back to screen Love, Will, and Wisdom as well as around 30 minutes of unreleased footage.

"Love, Will, and Wisdom will always be part of our catalog. It has gotten close to 45,000 views and has been something people consistently are finding for the first time, or rewatching even. I was shocked when many of my friends, both at the time and now, have actually watched it through..."

River originally made the film in may of 2022, Their freshman year of college. It took around 5 months to complete with only 4 filming days. The process has little documentation of it other than raw camera footage, though the amount of footage captured at the Grandview Estate was staggering. In fact, River recently has sent a hard drive to be digitized to Esocrypt's Archival Services possibly containing more footage.

"There are definitely things that have gotten lost through the cracks. I took several memory cards and they all got put onto different hard drives, I had no organization. Things like people other than Dan [Lupacchino] and Christopher [Penczak] talking about Laurie Cabot. Also a story from one of the ministers about how they chose the place for Grandview, about it being a vision from fairies. Things I wish I could have put in..."

Templehearth will be happening January 31st through December 2nd, with the proceeds going to help the building of a community center for the Temple of Witchcraft. In order to participate in the Templehearth After Dark screening on February 1st you have to buy a ticket to the Templehearth event.

Find out more about the Temple of Witchcraft's Community Center project here https://templeofwitchcraft.org/sponsorships/

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Love, will, and wisdom: the temple of witchcraft documentary is available free on the @ESOCRYPT official YouTube Channel.