The Wizard Oz
Oberon Zell-Ravenheart has spent decades building a life around the word wizard, and this short profile follows him through the persona he built it on. He co-founded the Church of All Worlds, one of the first legally recognized Pagan religious organizations in the United States, and is widely credited with coining the term polyamory. The film sits with him in his home and workshop, surrounded by the ritual objects, sculpted creatures, and costumes he has made over a lifetime of what he calls practical magic, while he talks through the philosophy behind Paganism, nature worship, and his own chosen identity as a real wizard rather than a performer of one. Interviews and archival material trace how a countercultural idea from the 1960s turned into an organized religious community that still exists today. The tone stays close to biography rather than debate, treating Zell-Ravenheart's beliefs on their own terms and letting his decades of work speak for the movement he helped start.