This film is offered as our prayer between Hawaii and America for HEALING. We have learned how the 'Aina (land) was sadly taken by American broken promises. We have learned how Christian marriage was used to violently shame the Hawaiian culture who was originally very sexual, accepting, fluid, and loving; a people now displaced, without home, and yet so quick to forgive, to accept, to share, and to welcome. Hawaii showed us the beauty of our skin and the color-blindness of the heart. Where Pele, the Hawaiian goddess of volcanoes, fire, lightning, wind, and dance, the creator of the Hawaiian Islands and ʻohana (family) by natives. THIS FILM IS OUR PRAYER. Of dance, of fire, of feminine sensual embodiment re-aligning Christian sacraments to honor the Hawaii that Christianity first dishonored as the ostracized feminine side of Christ. This is our love letter to the ‘Aina and Pele, and a ho'oponopono prayer in behalf of the Christian faith and our American nationality. “I'm sorry, Please forgive me, Thank you, I love you.”
Magdalene Remembered Filmmaking Team

A PRAYER FOR HAWAII

Proverb: "Mai ka piko o ke po'o a ka poli o ka wāwae, a l'a ma na kihi 'ehā o ke kino."

Translation: “From the crown of the head to the soles of the feet, and the four corners of THE BODY."

Meaning: Used in prayers of HEALING.

A HOLY EROTICA FILM STUDY | TRANSMISSION

“Through this MANIFESTO, we are rewriting the religious narrative. SEX IS shameful SACRED. WE ARE BORN WITH ORIGINAL sin PURITY. THE FEMININE DOES not BELONG IN THE HOLY TRINITY.

We are placing the Womb at the center of creation as the Holy Grail, Earth as the Original Church, and the Body as the First Temple, worthy of sensual worship.”

- Magdalene Remembered Filmmaking Team

MAGDALENE REMEMBERED, is a poetic TRANSMISSION of Christened Word, Luminous Body, and Provocative Image; an Erotic Short Film that Unites the Divide between Eros and Divine.

WITNESS MAGDALENE on a self-initiatory journey of mystery and reality, a weaving between the sanctuary of her bed and the secret caves of ancient church; from taking holy sacraments to RECLAIMING HER INNOCENCE, to following her into the underworld of A HIGHLY EROTIC SELF-PLEASURE JOURNEY, and finally, to the ocean where fire meets water for a REVELATORY SELF-BAPTISM.

By viewing this film, you are invited to experience EROTIC GNOSIS; to meet your body with REVERENCE, and enter a portal of devotional connection to ALL THAT IS. By experiencing the Holy Spirit of Pleasure within us, we can remember that the fabric of the universe is LOVE.

"There is no shame here.

Here and now, it's just me.

And an offering of my heart."

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"I WANT TO FILM sex in a church.”

Three women, each in the fringe sex space, have flirted the same film concept to me on separate occasions, a concept that mirrors a vision — not an idea — that I had years ago during my God-encounter in a Filipino restaurant in Queens. This concept is blasphemous! Or is it? I felt a familiar voice stir in my body. “Make Holy Erotica.”

HYPOTHESIS: What if I looped these women together to produce this controversial film. Is this the devil? The divine? Or is it a TRANSMISSION?

Magdalene Remembered is a fearless art-film that took my camera into “blasphemy”. Already, it has struck a nerve on the Big Island where it was produced, igniting conversation on both sides of the patriarchal-matriarchal Sophia-Christ trope, both conservative Christ followers and zealous Magdalene initiates. Authentic holiness is, at first, divisive.

We, the filmmakers, stand proudly in the middle as gap-filler for these necessary conversations, to be pacifying and inclusive regardless of the persecution or praise, and embodying the spirit of aloha, a synonym of Christ-Love. This is what how I learned the distinction of the EROTIC CHRIST, by embodying inclusive-accepting Love. To invite, not divide; to celebrate, not shame; to reconcile all broken parts and be Whole again. Holy. With our Erotica.

It is through these interactions that I learned that my Holy Spirit encounter I had in a Filipino restaurant in Queens can also be articulated as a KUNDALINI AWAKENING, and the vision from that — of feminine eroticism in a cave led by a priestess figure-head — is possibly of an ancient church led by a Magdalene archetype, vivid details apparently characteristic of an “Isis Initiation”, or a “Sophia Code”. I don’t really know. However. Following this thread revealed my own white-washing conditioning as an Asian-American man, my hyper-sexual view of women, and took me Home to the Philippines and my Bible Belt roots. In conclusion, yes, I do believe what we as co-filmmakers have followed a TRANSMISSION. “Make Holy Erotica.”

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HOLY EROTICA PRESENTS DIVINE DEBAUCHERY

The Magdalene Remembered LIVE SCREENINGS have been called “the party of the year” mixing EROTICISM, DANCE, MUSIC, and COMMUNITY with INNOCENCE.

MINISTERS OF THE EROTIC

LAUREN, a writer and a filmmaker of the erotic, and KELLY, a dancer and also a filmmaker of the erotic, wanted to push their limits. They had no background in Christian ministry like I did. I had no background in the erotic like they did. This can work.

We started with three settings — a church-space, a cave-space, and a baptism space. We each owned our craft; Lauren the poet of word, Kelly the poet of dance and embodiment, and me the poet of image. Lauren directed the set. Kelly directed her dance and erotic embodiment. I directed the edit.

By seeing my women co-filmmakers as MINISTERS OF THE EROTIC, I learned of feminine metaphors that were once blind to me as a Christian man, of the Holy Grail and Womb, of menstrual blood and the blood/wine in the Eucharist, and the Earth as Mother.

Lauren is an Erotic Artist and Writer, certified Tantric Love and Relationship Coach, as well as a sensual activator through hands on healing and Kundalini Bodywork sessions, of over 18 years.
Lauren, playing with the Empress of Eros archetype, allows the current of sensuality to guide her life. She lives for that passionate connection with the Beloved through all beings; of gazing into their eyes and revealing their soul, as well as the body as a canvas of spiritual connection and revelation.
As someone who straddles both worlds of western, sexualized tantra, and the yogic meditative forms of eastern Tantra, Lauren offers a refreshed and playful view that leads one into authentic, embodied presence, leading to greater liberation of the true self.
With an 800-hr coaching certification from the Tantric Institute of Integrated Sexuality, she powerfully guides people who are feeling fragmented and disconnected from their bodies & sexual expression to places of innocent wholeness, expansion and reclamation of their erotic essence.
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Kelly Klein, PhD, is an embodied artist, filmmaker, dancer, somatic intimacy and relationship coach, Transformational Kink Practitioner, and Tantric priestess. As a leader of the erotic revolution, her mission is to facilitate humanity’s liberation in harmony with the Earth and to facilitate embodied knowing of our inherent divinity and interconnectedness.
Having spent her life intimately investigating the body, relationships, community, sexuality, and sensuality, she celebrates the full range of sexual desires with compassion and curiosity. Her work begins with the belief that our connection to our bodies and one another reflects and impacts our connection to the earth, and she seeks to help humanity find greater harmony in these relations. She brings embodied knowledge as a dancer, anatomical and spiritual knowledge as a yoga instructor, and emotional and sensual wisdom as a sacred sexuality practitioner and sex and relationship coach.
She holds a PhD from The Ohio State University, is certified with The Integrative Arts Institute, and has trained with the Somatica Institute and the International School of Temple Arts.

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Nathanael is a career editor and producer in the docu-series world for Discovery, A&E, History, Netflix, Facebook, MTV, and many other networks. He has a film production degree from the prestigious University of Southern California. He is also a former church camp pastor with seven years experience in professional youth ministry. He is a Youtube content creator and singer of karaoke. His passion is to articulate and heal our nations sexual wound through an online magazine in development called The Erostocrat and peripheral spaces.
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