A prophet who longed to look upon his deities A daunting journey to a mountain peak A confrontation with gods too powerful to name This is the story that inspired Peter Rhodes who worked as a filmmaker and artist during the 1920s Few people know of his work and its only through luck and perseverance that we have been able to track down the elements for this lost film Rhodes films were created using silhouette animation a technique perfectly suited to depict Lovecrafts mythic Dreamland stories The filmmakers involvement in New York Citys occult and literary scenes provided him with a select audience for his work Rhodes was especially influenced through his relationships with occultist Aleister Crowley and writer HP Lovecraft but it was personal tragedy that moved him to produce The Other Gods A Tale of the Dream Cycle his most powerful film