Movies: Magic

Casper tries to help The Great Foozini perform his magic act....

Derren Brown is a unique force in the world of illusion - he can seemingly predict and control human behaviour. He doesn't claim to be a mind-reader, instead he describes his craft as a mixture of magic, suggestion, psychology, misdirection and showm...

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Portrait of a Knight is a musical romance about the way in which historic ideals inform contemporary urban life. Rachel is a young archivist living and working in Wellington, New Zealand. Feeling alone and disconnected from life, she projects her rom...

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Anger discusses his Aleister Crowley-inspired theories of art: How he views his camera like a wand and how he casts his films, preferring to consider his actors, not human beings but as elemental spirits. In fact, he reveals that he goes so far as to...

Home team Salem College Coven prepares to host Cassadaga College Coven for the finals of the National Collegiate Witchcraft Competition. Perpetually-stressed film student Alicia just wants to make a documentary about these weirdos for her thesis, but...

On her 21st birthday, a young woman receives a gift from her older brother — a childhood elephant trinket that stirs up memories of never being good enough. Fueled by resentment and insecurity, she makes a wish… and wakes up in a world where her bro...

A lonely boy encounters a mysterious wizard and is given a seed that could grow into something magical....

Late one Christmas Eve on a routine mission for Santa, holiday adventurers Peter Bell and Hark the Herald Angel find their cheer-charged, jingle-bringin', major-chord-musical talents are sorely needed to remind a young girl what the season is all abo...

A mysterious sorcerer appears that only speaks backwards wreaks havoc upon the earth. A short film made by Jackson Cogger Clee....

It is the story of a moneyless middle-aged magician whose life takes an unexpected turn when a little girl who seems to have supernatural abilities, truly "magical" powers, begins to appear frequently in his garden, causing him to rethink his profess...

A young witch tries to find 'the oasis' and has captured a young man who knows it's exact location. But before he tells her where she can find this mystical place she first has to convince him that magic is in fact very real....

Why is it that societies need magicians to lie to them? It's a question magician and philosopher Eugene Burger addresses as the world-renowned 'Guru of Magic.' In 'A Magical Vision,' Eugene and a circle of other thoughtful magicians reveal why, from ...

Many years ago, a legendary sword was forged. A battle took place over the right to wield it, but it was ultimately lost. Years later, the ancestor of the sword's original wielder uncovers the sword and sets off a chain of events involving the fabled...

A young couple, Jana and Sami, prepare a religious ritual so that Jana can get in contact with her late friend....

Prestidigitation before the age of the pixel. Very lively stop motion and open shutter piece, all done in camera – but transferred to video for ease of viewing....

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When neophyte magician The Great Corben botches his first big break, he has one chance to redeem himself, but the pressure may be too much for him to handle....