
About this Event
Film Spells: Retrograde Salon
In the PRS Library!
Are you a filmmaker or writer with an abandoned project? Does it need to be reawakened (or relinquished) with the care of a community of intuitive and psychic fellow seers?
Join @arianne.ayu of @filmspells to liberate your process of intuitive creation. By welcoming Mercury retrograde in Sagittarius, we’ll explore your dormant work and play with multiple channeling methods to enliven it, celebrate its lessons, and make room for possibilities. After sharing our projects and identifying the story's desires, we’ll have spacious time to write or edit new life into them, before closing the day’s ceremony together.
This in-person salon is a working group and capped at 9 initiates, so we may go deep and offer personalized attention. Please bring something to write with (analog or laptop), and (optional) a shareable link or file if you’d like to present any media to invoke your project during introductions.
Tickets: $11 - $66 Sliding Scale (In Person Only Event)
Limited capacity to 9 participants!
Please email [email protected] or phone 323-663-2167 with any questions.

Arianne Ayu Alizio is a poet, filmmaker, and capricorn many times over. They write and direct expansive love stories for those who exist between worlds and resist legibility.
Arianne’s poems and films are multiplane ghost stories invested in liberation and intimate connection– tracing culture, protecting lost histories, and honoring their dead.
Arianne received The Poetry Project’s 2022 Brannan Prize and was a top 10 finalist for Palette Poetry’s 2023 Rising Poets Prize. Their film La Mirage debuted at the 2013 Brooklyn International Film Festival and was recently acquired by Empowerhouse. Arianne’s short Jalan Jalan was a finalist for Jane Schoenbrun’s 2018 Eyeslicer Grant. They’ve screened and performed at St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, Institute of American Indian Arts, BLUM, Philosophical Research Society, Garel Fine Art Gallery, plus many rooftops, farms, bookstores, and bars.
You may also know them as the founder of Film Spells, a workshop and screening series for ciné-psychics.
bio.site/arianneayu // @arianne.ayu

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Philosophical Research Society, 3910 Los Feliz Boulevard, Los Angeles, United States
USD 13.58 to USD 72.27
