About Thomas Negovan
Thomas Negovan is an author, musician, and filmmaker. Since founding Century Guild in 1999, he has been its driving creative force, shaping it through its multiple incarnations as an art gallery, a museum, and publisher of fine books. Negovan’s first solo album was recorded without electricity on a 19th century wax cylinder machine designed by Thomas Edison, and in 2011 he gave a TEDx talk on its creation.
That same year, he recorded and released a song on the world’s first recording and playback medium, wax cylinder—the first person to have done so since 1924. The recordings were met with high praise—David J, founder of the iconic bands Bauhaus and Love & Rockets, described them as being “Like scratchy field recordings gathered from dreams... Unique and soulful” , and counterculture publisher Disinformation hailed them as “Truly unusual and genuinely compelling.”
Negovan’s epic tome Le Pater: Alphonse Mucha’s Symbolist Masterpiece and the Lineage of Mysticism was lauded by Michael Moorcock, one of the most respected authors in history—best known as the originator of the “multiverse” theme in popular culture—as “profound and beautiful...a source of beauty and intellectual inspiration.”
Negovan’s ambitious Symbolist reenvisioning of the notorious 1979 film Caligula, dubbed “The Ultimate Cut”, premiered as an official selection at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, was selected by LA Weekly as an honorable mention in their “Best Films of 2024” list, and was praised by the film's stars Malcolm McDowell and Helen Mirren as the beautiful and epic version of the film they’d always hoped would be created.
Negovan’s first film, Aurora (co-created with Aaron Shaps), was applauded by author and psychic revolutionary Grant Morrison as “Haunting, eerie, and stylish” and by counterculture icon Richard Metzger “as if David Lynch or Jodorowsky had directed an episode of The Twilight Zone.”
