With an interest in the occult from the age of 11 and an academic background in cultural anthropology, Raymond Salvatore Harmon has been making occult based experimental films since 1998. Harmon’s films and videos use light, sound, and subliminals to stimulate an expansion of consciousness in the viewer, using the visual image as a form of illumination. To this end his works such as YHVH and Tree of Life are not designed simply for visual pleasure - although the swirling patterns and colours that form these works are regularly screened at film festivals - but as a magical tool designed for incorporation into rituals.