Upcoming
Sacred Monster Volume 1 Release party ~ July 18, 2025
The release of SACRED MONSTER, Volume 1 at 1909 Librairie, 18H - 21H, in Paris, France.
SACRED MONSTER Volume 1 is a new zine gathering several of Cassens’s essays on Jean Cocteau, Vanderpump Rules and its Surrealist roots, Kanye West, the erotic prose poem which shocked 1920s Paris, and more.
Past
Jean Cocteau’s 136th birthday party ~ July 5, 2025
A celebration, screening of Testament of Orpheus (1960)
and fundraiser for the PRS theater at the Philosophical Research Society
Chloë Cassens’ SACRED MONSTER presents the 136th birthday of avant-garde icon Jean Cocteau with a celebration, film screening and fundraiser event at the Philosophical Research Society (PRS) on Saturday, July 5, 2025, 6:00 – 11:00 PM.
This will also be the launch the release of SACRED MONSTER Volume 1, a new zine gathering several of essays on Jean Cocteau, Vanderpump Rules and its Surrealist roots, Kanye West, the erotic prose poem which shocked 1920s Paris, and more.
La Belle et la Bête ~ June 21, 2025
Chloë Cassens will be introducing a screening of La Belle et la Bête (1946) at Vidiots
Exquisite and dreamy, Jean Cocteau’s fairy tale adaptation is a one-of-a-kind cinematic masterpiece. The story of a gentle-hearted beast in love with a simple and beautiful girl. She is drawn to the repellent but strangely fascinating Beast, who tests her fidelity by giving her a key, telling her that if she doesn’t return it to him by a specific time, he will die of grief. She is unable to return the key on time, but it is revealed that the Beast is the genuinely handsome one. A simple tale of tragic love that turns into a surreal vision of death, desire, and beauty. Achingly beautiful and soulful, you won’t want to miss this cinema essential on the big screen!
Baiting the Gods, Vol. XIV ~ July 19, 2024
Alaska Lynch hosts Vol. XIV of Baiting the Gods, inviting Chloë Cassens to read from Jean Cocteau.
Vol. XIV included an open bar and artisanal cuisine by by RAW on Romaine, percussion and paintings by Jeffrey Vincent Parise, live portraiture by Orpheus, fireside tarot by Joan Lynch, and guests Petite Meller, Tess Comre, Andrew Pitrone, Cherry Garland, Chloë Cassens, The Moscow Gala Quintet, Ahab à la Mode with Dave Yaden, Evan Laflamme and Tyler Hammond.
Talk at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection ~ May 10, 2024
A private walk through in Venice, Italy with SACRED MONSTER founder Chloë Cassens.
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection invited Chloë Cassens to speak to students working at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection about the work of Jean Cocteau in tandem with the exhibition Jean Cocteau: The Jugglers Revenge.
Left: Chloë Cassens, courtesy Frédéric Tröhler. Right: courtesy Philosophical Research Society
Jean Cocteau’s The Blood of a Poet ~ September 4, 2024
A screening and conversation with SACRED MONSTER founder Chloë Cassens and Surrealist Study Group at Philosophical Research Society.
The Philosophical Research Society (PRS) hosts a screening of Jean Cocteau’s revolutionary first film, The Blood of a Poet (1932) on Wednesday, September 4th at 7PM. The film will be followed by an in-depth discussion about Jean Cocteau’s groundbreaking work between Chloë Cassens, the founder of SACRED MONSTER and the representative of the Severin Wunderman Collection, which is the largest collection in the world of works by Cocteau, and dama, who is an artist, curator, a librarian at PRS, and the host of their Surrealist Study Group (SSG).
Jean Cocteau’s Orpheus ~ February 13, 2025
A screening and conversation with SACRED MONSTER founder Chloë Cassens
and Surrealist Study Group at Philosophical Research Society
The Philosophical Research Society (PRS) hosts a screening of Jean Cocteau’s film Orpheus (1950) on Thursday, February 13, 2025, 7:30 – 9:30 pm. The film will be followed by an in-depth discussion about Cocteau’s groundbreaking work between Chloë Cassens, the founder of SACRED MONSTER and the representative of the Severin Wunderman Collection, which is the largest collection in the world of works by Cocteau, and dama, who is an artist, curator, a librarian at PRS, and the host of their Surrealist Study Group (SSG).