Now Instant and Rotations present a special screening of Caroline Golum’s Revelations of Divine Love, accompanied by Ioanna Filippopoulou’s Three Mystics, and followed by a post-screening conversation with actress Tessa Strain and Molly Lambert.

An irreverent biopic vividly realized through fantastic psychedelia and handmade sets with an ever-topical feminist approach, Revelations of Divine Love is inspired by and adapted from the memoir of 14th-century mystic and philosopher Julian of Norwich (Tessa Strain) and an account of religious ecstasy, plague, and revolt considered to be the first book to be authored by a woman in English. The film envisions the life of Julian in the lead up to her anchorage—through her illness and the onset of her godly visions—and follows her through the years as she indulges in her desire to write and becomes a revered and holy figure to those in her town and beyond the city walls.

Three Mystics is a filmic essay referring to the spiritual journeys of three historical figures: Sufi poetess Rabia al Basra, esoteric writer Marguerite Porete, a Christian, and Lingayat Akka Mahadevi. Each mystic’s ritual is reflective of her devotion to her deity, showcasing how different religions all thread in common divine love. With beautiful coloration and anachronism, the film gives an unusual, expansive dimension to gender in spirituality and religion.

Rotations is an occasional film series focused on experimental nonfiction filmmaking, artist and political cinema, and their detours, by living, transnational feminist practitioners and their collaborators.

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