Features: Profiles

Ian Simmons looks back at the eccentric career of Harry Smith - filmmaker, musicologist and magician

On the 150th anniversary of the birth of brilliant inventor Nikola Tesla, Mark Pilkington explores the enigma of the man who lit up the world.

Charles Fort’s friendship with author Theodore Dreiser lasted from 1905 to Fort’s death in 1932.

David Lynch’s films have always conjured up a surreal, nightmarish world of physical and psychic violence – but the man behind movies like Eraserhead and Wild at Heart has long been pursuing a surprisingly different agenda.

One of the founding fathers of American rocket-science was a character strung between Scott Fitzgerald, Jack Kerouac, and the Devil himself.

Phil Baker profiles the strange career of this extraordinary artist, visionary and magician.

Immortal, ascended master, alchemist, space tourist or charlatan, the Count of St-Germain is one of the most intriguing mystery-men of the 18th century.