Writer, artist, filmologist. Poetic art and alchemical storytelling. Independent scholar, researching psychology of cinema and spectatorship, the female gaze, psychology of art and creativity, archetypal enchantment. BA Psychology/MA History of Film & Visual Media. Tomatometer-Approved Critic. Author at Poets, Mavericks & Prophets and Lola On Film, hosts Lola & The Poets Podcast on magical realities, runs an art Story Shop. Serbia-UK. To get in touch, please e-mail me at milana@lolaonfilm.com
All narrative is a lie. The truth can only be heard in the pauses between words. In stillness. When we recognise our own breath. DEDICATED TO ANIMA MUNDI
featured events
Symposium
One-day symposium on 21st Century Magic and Spirituality in Media and Culture, at Goldsmiths, University of London, Fri 30 Jun.
FEATUREd NOTES
Delphi Oracle – Guided Divination
Poets, Mavericks & Prophets takes its first alchemical journey at the sacred site of Delphi – a guided oracular divination.
Come The Revolution – Clash Of The Titans
An astro/psychological take on the ongoing exact square of Saturn in Aquarius (2020-2023) and Uranus in Taurus (2018-2026).
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lola & The poets podcast — latest
On Liminality & Sensory Experiences – With Joshua Sternlicht – Lola & The Poets
featured SHORT story
The Fish Lady
A woman selling fish encounters salvation. Short story. The fish were terrified. Georgina’s round, placid face appeared to come out of nowhere,…
featured poem
The Void
It is not so damaging, not really painful, to live without the ones you love. When you choose to, at the right time, on the spaceless hour, you can pin them, like butterflies, on the white ceiling…
Stories
Transrealist phantasmagorical short stories, submerged in intense fantastical inner worlds, potent with chaos and synchronicity.
Shop
A little alchemical shop of stories, told in a variety of materials and manifestations, made in alignment with the celestial weather.
Alchemy
A series of texts dedicated to personal creative therapeutic work, merging the old ways & the new.
Podcast
Lola & The Poets explores personal and collective magical journeys, the ways the mystical & the mundane intertwine. Solo shows, interviews.
Poetry
A selection of my poems, old and new, plus the Art Manifesto I wrote in 2008.
Workshops
Creative spaces, drawing on alchemical symbolism — combining storytelling, artistic expression & play. Book them here for your venue.
METAPHYSICS OF CINEMA FILMOLOGY FILM AS MEDIUM THEORY CINEMA AND SOCIETY CULTURE CELLULOID TREASURES ARCHIVES INDIE PICS LOLA LOVES SHORTS
RECENT POSTS
Art psychotherapy, psychology of cinema, psychology and alchemy, alchemical symbolism in art, female gaze, transpersonal psychology, post-jungian analysis, cinema therapy, spectatorship, visual anthropology, cinéma vérité, experimental cinema, film noir, psychogeography, shamanism, anthropology of magic.
NOTES ON ALCHEMICAL PSYCHOLOGY
Forty Days, Forty Nights – Goddess Descends
An astrological essay on Venus turning retrograde, in the sign of Capricorn, while in a tango with Pluto, the God of the Dead.
Hidden In Plain Sight
On the lore of the traditional handcrafted Russian Doll, of stories nested within stories, astrological rising signs, and all things hidden in plain sight.
Emotional Archaeology
On approaching our photo archives as oracle guides, journeying through a labyrinth of our own camera obscura.
CRYSTAL VAULTS
The Philosophy Of Light
My first alchemical jewellery collection, an exploration of the character of our crystal kin and their relationship with the nature of light. It consists of sixteen pieces, and is my humble offering to the Angelic Realms.
Nature Is An Engine
My second alchemical jewellery collection celebrating the sensual pleasures of life on Earth, in all their phenomenological simplicity and ontological magnificence. It consists of eight pieces. Dedicated to Motherhood.
PMAPSART ON REDBUBBLE
PMaPsArt On Redbubble
First six collections are Rose Medicine, Food Magic, Small Wonders, Natural Design, Anima and Psychogeography. The new one, Holy Synaesthesia is a mix of my poetry with just the right blend of hue, courtesy of colour hex work.
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