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Kenneth Anger (born Kenneth Wilbur Anglemyer; born February 3, 1927) is an American underground experimental filmmaker, actor and author. Working exclusively in short films, he has produced almost forty works since 1937, nine of which have been grouped together as the "Magick Lantern Cycle". His films variously merge surrealism with homoeroticism and the occult, and have been described as containing "elements of erotica, documentary, psychodrama, and spectacle". Anger himself has been described as "one of America's first openly gay filmmakers, and certainly the first whose work addressed homosexuality in an undisguised, self-implicating manner", and his "role in rendering gay culture visible within American cinema, commercial or otherwise, is impossible to overestimate", with several being released prior to the legalization of homosexuality in the United States. He has also focused upon occult themes in many of his films, being fascinated by the English occultist Aleister Crowley, and is an adherent of Thelema, the religion Crowley founded.
Original track by Acqua Lazúli (Download here: https://soundcloud.com/acqualazuli/kenneth-anger-lucifer-rising-original-track-by-acqua-lazuli). A film by Kenneth Anger. Video extracted and re-worked from Lucifer Rising. Audio Original By Bobby Beausoleil, extracted from Lucifer Rising. Video rights do not belong to me. No copyright infringement intended, this is a tribute for this good movie. Kenneth Anger- Lucifer Rising 1972 Lucifer Rising is a short film by director Kenneth Anger. The film was completed in 1972 but was only widely distributed in 1980. Anger began filming around 1966, hiring a young musician named Bobby Beausoleil to act and compose the soundtrack. The film was abandoned in 1967 because Anger claimed the film footage had been stolen by Beausoleil. (Beausoleil and othe...
Kenneth Anger 1954 Music by Janacek (Glagolithic Mass). Cast: Samson DeBrier (Lord Shiva, Osiris, The Great Beast), Cameron (The Scarlet Woman, Kali), Katy Kadell (Isis), Renata Loome (Lilith), Anais Nin (Astarte), Paul Mathison (Pan), Curtis Harrington (Cesare the Somnambulist), Kenneth Anger (Hecate), Peter Loome (Ganymede). "The film is derived from one of Aleister Crowley's dramatic rituals where people in the cult assume the identity of a god or a goddess. I wanted to create a feeling of being carried into a world of wonder, and the use of color and fantasy is progressive. In other words, it expands, it becomes completely subjective -- like when people take communion and one sees it through their eyes. ... Lord Shiva, the magician, awakes. The Scarlet Woman, whore of heaven, smokes a...
Kenneth Anger, avant-garde filmmaker and author of the infamous Hollywood Babylon series, discusses "The Wickedest Man in the World," Aleister Crowley. A British occultist, hedonist, and author, Crowley inspired a fanatical following in the 20th century through his occult writings.
With its blistering rock and roll soundtrack, Kenneth Anger’s 1963 film Scorpio Rising – his twelfth short in 23 years – could be seen as a prelude to the music video. Its stress on stimulating and engaging imagery – at times only marginally related to the music – further builds on the correlation. Yet few music videos, if any, have achieved this type of widespread admiration, or expressed this type of analytical potential. In its 28-minute running time, the experimental film ostensibly follows a group of young motorcycle aficionados as they prepare for a night on the town. A race, which seems to take place after the nocturnal events but could just as likely have happened before, concludes the picture. While there is no strict narrative to speak of, nor even remotely fleshed-out character...
Filmed at The States Museum for the Arts (SMK) in Copenhagen, 2008.
"Lucifer Rising" by Kenneth Anger Music by Chinaski - recorded Live @ Hotel International - 12/08/16 Mainz 2016 inclusive massiv movie soundtrack samples, unreleased music and released music Video extracted and dubbed from Lucifer Rising. Original Soundtrack by Bobby Beausoleil. No Film right inclusive. No copyright infringement intended, this is a musical tribute.
"A Slavonic Mass by Leos Janácek plays as historical figures, biblical characters, and mythical creatures gather in the pleasure dome. Aphrodite, Lilith, Isis, Kali, Astarte, Nero, Pan, and the Great Beast and the Scarlet Woman are part of a visual feast of images superimposed, hallucinations, and the spirit of decadence of the "Yellow '90s." Mythological images from Aleister Crowley, cabalistic symbols, artifice, and magic combine to render the pleasure dome both as prison and as celebration. "
Kenneth Anger influences a new generation--Sean Lennon and James Franco.
In 1978, Anger re-cut his landmark 1954 film, Inauguration Of The Pleasure Dome by several minutes as well as changing the score of the film he had previous selected, Glagolitic Mass by the Czech composer Leoš Janáček. This re-constructed version, offered here today features Anger's choice of the 1974 Electric Light Orchestra album, 'Eldorado' as score. This edition of the film would be labeled by Anger as his "Sacred Mushroom Edition". Anger successfully screened this E.L.O. version of the film at the 1978 Boston Film Festival. This festival exhibition would be the only time in history this version of Anger's film had been seen, until now.
Now available on DVD ON DEMAND through our BLOG: revoirvideo.blogspot.com/ Elliott’s Suicide (2007, 15 min, video) A homage to the late American singer-songwriter Elliott Smith, Elliott’s Suicide is a sentimental 15 minute tribute, lacking Anger’s usual irony for obvious reasons. The film begins with shots of friends’ and fans’ last words written on Smith’s memorial on Sunset Boulevard, then to footage of a Macy’s parade, focusing closely on the oddly outfitted participants, some in renaissance attire, cowboys with lassos, and beauty queens. The film is scored with Smith’s music, resulting in a melancholy effect, especially in the segment that follows Smith through the woods and films him as he digs up a guitar, then plays a song. This footage is repeated in the end of the film, but in ...
STATEMENT : Dr. Kenneth Anger on “DEATH” As a firm believer in resurrection, I approach the subject of “DEATH” not as the closing of a final door, but as a beginning. In my short cinepoem “DEATH” I begin with a golden skull, and conclude with the silver death mask of the notorious gangster, John Dillinger. In between we see the bunks and bodies of two of the Heaven’s Gaters, deluded into believing by an evil cult that death by suicide would deliver them to a waiting flying saucer. Then a succession of silver embossed tantric skulls of enlightened ones lead us to the necessary conclusion. By these small token gestures I chose to broach the vast subject that remains unknowable. Death is indeed the spice of life -for without it life would have no meaning. It is necessary to give form, pacin...
Directed by Cosmotropia De Xam Video excerpt of Artfilm Kosmische Puppen III starring Shivabel DVD available for pre-order via http://phantasmadisques.bigcartel.com (release date 1st August 2012) Gloom remixes soon via http://desirerecords.bigcartel.com follow Crossover on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/CROSSOVER/113630821530 follow Mater Suspiria Vision on facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mater-Suspiria-Vision/10150124664305212
Now available on DVD ON DEMAND through our BLOG http://revoirvideo.blogspot.com/ Mouse Heaven Directed by Kenneth Anger, Appearing in Person US 2004, video, color, silent, 10 min. Anger’s spirited celebration of Mickey Mouse reveals his consummate skills as an editor, able to musically interweave a staggering profusion of Mickeys, a panoply of shapes and sizes that suggest the multiple lives of a popular cultural icon who has truly taken on almost religious dimensions. (Harvard Film Archive)
Technicolor Skull is a real sensory experience, about 20 minutes long, exploring the mental impact of a magick ritual in the context of an improvised performance. With Brian Butler at the special guitar and the electronics, and Kenneth Anger at the theremin and visuals, the collaboration of these two Californian artists gives birth to a “ceremony” that is enchanting and spectral as well. An initiation to occult rituals, and an event that will leave a mark on you. The performance will be followed by The Occult program, a screening of Magick Cinema composed of several rare films by the two artists they will introduce themselves: Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (Kenneth Anger, 1954, 38min) Brush of Baphomet (Kenneth Anger, 2009, 7 min) Night of Pan (Brian Butler, 2009, 7 min) Union of Opp...
AUTUMN / WINTER 2011 SHORT FASHION FILM his movies are like “fabrics, three dimensional textures, un-missable plots of colors and images in motion.” This also explains her fascination for the Californian filmakers oeuvre, together with the reasons for such a collaboration.
James Kalm wanders through the unusual installation of Kenneth Anger bringing viewers along for a brief glimpse of the first major survey of his work in over ten years. Kenneth Anger (b.1927) has been a cult classic, producing some of the most legendary underground films of the last half century. As a native Californian with deep ties to Hollywood, Anger’s innovative use of saturated color, Pop, and Rock and Roll soundtracks and mysterious allusions to rituals, celebrity and subcultures, have distinguished him as a harbinger of societal evolution.
Now available on DVD ON DEMAND through our BLOG revoirvideo.blogspot.com/ Foreplay (2008, 7 min, video) Directed by Kenneth Anger Leave it to Kenneth Anger to turn footage of a very non-professional men’s soccer team warming up for practice into a sweaty, sexy, homoerotic seven minutes. Rarely does an entire figure appear in Foreplay, but rather snippets of sweaty, twitching muscles, well-endowed groins, and sculpted calves kicking balls, producing flesh-slapping sound effects to a score of techno music. Initially Foreplay looks like a crappy home video of soccer practice, but it’s also reminiscent of Anger’s pop/fetish films Scorpio Rising (1963) and Kustom Kar Kommandos (1965). excerpt from "New Films from Kenneth Anger" by Mary Hanlon (The Brooklyn Rail, Inc.)
Original track by Acqua Lazúli (Download here: https://soundcloud.com/acqualazuli/kenneth-anger-lucifer-rising-original-track-by-acqua-lazuli). A film by Kenneth Anger. Video extracted and re-worked from Lucifer Rising. Audio Original By Bobby Beausoleil, extracted from Lucifer Rising. Video rights do not belong to me. No copyright infringement intended, this is a tribute for this good movie. Kenneth Anger- Lucifer Rising 1972 Lucifer Rising is a short film by director Kenneth Anger. The film was completed in 1972 but was only widely distributed in 1980. Anger began filming around 1966, hiring a young musician named Bobby Beausoleil to act and compose the soundtrack. The film was abandoned in 1967 because Anger claimed the film footage had been stolen by Beausoleil. (Beausoleil and othe...
Kenneth Anger 1954 Music by Janacek (Glagolithic Mass). Cast: Samson DeBrier (Lord Shiva, Osiris, The Great Beast), Cameron (The Scarlet Woman, Kali), Katy Kadell (Isis), Renata Loome (Lilith), Anais Nin (Astarte), Paul Mathison (Pan), Curtis Harrington (Cesare the Somnambulist), Kenneth Anger (Hecate), Peter Loome (Ganymede). "The film is derived from one of Aleister Crowley's dramatic rituals where people in the cult assume the identity of a god or a goddess. I wanted to create a feeling of being carried into a world of wonder, and the use of color and fantasy is progressive. In other words, it expands, it becomes completely subjective -- like when people take communion and one sees it through their eyes. ... Lord Shiva, the magician, awakes. The Scarlet Woman, whore of heaven, smokes a...
Kenneth Anger, avant-garde filmmaker and author of the infamous Hollywood Babylon series, discusses "The Wickedest Man in the World," Aleister Crowley. A British occultist, hedonist, and author, Crowley inspired a fanatical following in the 20th century through his occult writings.
With its blistering rock and roll soundtrack, Kenneth Anger’s 1963 film Scorpio Rising – his twelfth short in 23 years – could be seen as a prelude to the music video. Its stress on stimulating and engaging imagery – at times only marginally related to the music – further builds on the correlation. Yet few music videos, if any, have achieved this type of widespread admiration, or expressed this type of analytical potential. In its 28-minute running time, the experimental film ostensibly follows a group of young motorcycle aficionados as they prepare for a night on the town. A race, which seems to take place after the nocturnal events but could just as likely have happened before, concludes the picture. While there is no strict narrative to speak of, nor even remotely fleshed-out character...
Filmed at The States Museum for the Arts (SMK) in Copenhagen, 2008.
"Lucifer Rising" by Kenneth Anger Music by Chinaski - recorded Live @ Hotel International - 12/08/16 Mainz 2016 inclusive massiv movie soundtrack samples, unreleased music and released music Video extracted and dubbed from Lucifer Rising. Original Soundtrack by Bobby Beausoleil. No Film right inclusive. No copyright infringement intended, this is a musical tribute.
The Films of Kenneth Anger 3 Magick Lantern Cycle Invocation of my Demon Brother 1969, 11 minutes. Music by Mick Jagger. Cast: Speed Hacker (Wandbearer), Lenore Kandel (Deaconess), William Beutel (Deacon), Kenneth Anger(Magus), Van Leuven (Acolyte), Harvey Bialy (Brother), Timotha Bialy (Sister), Anton Szander LaVey (Satan), Bobby Beausoleil (Lucifer). "A conjuration of pagan forces that comes off the screen in a surge of spiritual and mystical power. It has wierdly compelling imagery, with a soundtrack by Mick Jagger that has the insistent hallucinatory power of voodoo." -- L.A. Free Press "The Shadowing forth of Lord Lucifer, as the Powers gather at a midnight mass." -- Kenneth Anger Lucifer Rising 1970-1980, 28 minutes A presentation of Anita Pallenberg. Music by Bobby Beausoliel and...
"A Slavonic Mass by Leos Janácek plays as historical figures, biblical characters, and mythical creatures gather in the pleasure dome. Aphrodite, Lilith, Isis, Kali, Astarte, Nero, Pan, and the Great Beast and the Scarlet Woman are part of a visual feast of images superimposed, hallucinations, and the spirit of decadence of the "Yellow '90s." Mythological images from Aleister Crowley, cabalistic symbols, artifice, and magic combine to render the pleasure dome both as prison and as celebration. "
Art, Satanism, the connection of Aleister Crowley and Jack Parsons, and the Russian space program are explored in an other-worldly interview with Brian Butler. We conduct a live experimental neurological realignment in the studio, learn about the Great Beast, and the films of Kenneth Anger, and explore Babylonian rituals in this Talk Show hosted by Harper Simon. GUEST BIO: Brian Butler is a Los Angeles based artist, filmmaker and musician. Butler’s interests and practices with mysticism function as the underlying narrative of works. Butler's films and performances often extend to the 'invisible' ends of the spectrum utilizing devices such as orgone accumulators, paradoxical sound frequencies, atmospherical ionization, stroboscopic effects, and electrostatic generators. Films include Night...
Kenneth Anger, avant-garde filmmaker and author of the infamous Hollywood Babylon series, discusses "The Wickedest Man in the World," Aleister Crowley. A British occultist, hedonist, and author, Crowley inspired a fanatical following in the 20th century through his occult writings.
Filmmaker Kenneth Anger speaks to the Institute of Contemporary Art's Steven Cairns, on the occasion of the ICA's Weekend of Anger (27 - 28 July 2013), a comprehensive survey of Anger's practice from the 1940s to the present. http://www.ica.org.uk/38060/Film/A-Weekend-of-Anger-the-Films-of-Kenneth-Anger.html
Filmed at The States Museum for the Arts (SMK) in Copenhagen, 2008.
Entretien Kenneth Anger/Jean-Emmanuel Deluxe réalisé à la Galerie du Jour (Paris) pour le magazine "Standard". A l'occasion de l'exposition Kenneth Anger jusqu'au 3 Novembre 2012 à la Galerie du Jour Agnès B. Interview by Jean-Emmanuel Deluxe for "Standard" magazine
Interview with Kenneth Anger pruduced by Arte (French TV station).
With its blistering rock and roll soundtrack, Kenneth Anger’s 1963 film Scorpio Rising – his twelfth short in 23 years – could be seen as a prelude to the music video. Its stress on stimulating and engaging imagery – at times only marginally related to the music – further builds on the correlation. Yet few music videos, if any, have achieved this type of widespread admiration, or expressed this type of analytical potential. In its 28-minute running time, the experimental film ostensibly follows a group of young motorcycle aficionados as they prepare for a night on the town. A race, which seems to take place after the nocturnal events but could just as likely have happened before, concludes the picture. While there is no strict narrative to speak of, nor even remotely fleshed-out character...
This film document's the production of Kenneth Anger's magnum opus Lucifer Rising - featuring interviews with Anger the manson family murderer Bobby Beausoleil
Inspired by the ICA's Weekend of Anger, this is the result of an impromptu catch up we had with Kenneth Anger back in 2006 at the London Film Festival. Subtitled to help with the busy ambient sound of a hotel lobby! Kenneth Anger's iconic films are an extraordinary demonstration of the transformative power of cinema. This interview offers aficionados and the uninitiated an opportunity to hear the great American underground experimental filmmaker. We've got more footage from this interview: should we make a part 2?
Legendary Hollywood gadabout, Samson De Brier interviewed by "American Eve" author Paula Uruburu in his Hollywood home in 1995. He remembers Evelyn Nesbit and other celebrity notables.
This video may contain copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. Such material is made available to advance understanding of political, human rights, economic, scientific, moral, ethical, and social justice issues. This constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the 1976 US Fair Use Copyright Act. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit, to those who have expressed a prior general interest in receiving similar information for research and education. Kenneth Copeland's True Spirit comes out at REPORTER when he just can't handle an answer to her question...
Original track by Acqua Lazúli (Download here: https://soundcloud.com/acqualazuli/kenneth-anger-lucifer-rising-original-track-by-acqua-lazuli). A film by Kenneth Anger. Video extracted and re-worked from Lucifer Rising. Audio Original By Bobby Beausoleil, extracted from Lucifer Rising. Video rights do not belong to me. No copyright infringement intended, this is a tribute for this good movie. Kenneth Anger- Lucifer Rising 1972 Lucifer Rising is a short film by director Kenneth Anger. The film was completed in 1972 but was only widely distributed in 1980. Anger began filming around 1966, hiring a young musician named Bobby Beausoleil to act and compose the soundtrack. The film was abandoned in 1967 because Anger claimed the film footage had been stolen by Beausoleil. (Beausoleil and othe...
Kenneth Anger 1954 Music by Janacek (Glagolithic Mass). Cast: Samson DeBrier (Lord Shiva, Osiris, The Great Beast), Cameron (The Scarlet Woman, Kali), Katy Kadell (Isis), Renata Loome (Lilith), Anais Nin (Astarte), Paul Mathison (Pan), Curtis Harrington (Cesare the Somnambulist), Kenneth Anger (Hecate), Peter Loome (Ganymede). "The film is derived from one of Aleister Crowley's dramatic rituals where people in the cult assume the identity of a god or a goddess. I wanted to create a feeling of being carried into a world of wonder, and the use of color and fantasy is progressive. In other words, it expands, it becomes completely subjective -- like when people take communion and one sees it through their eyes. ... Lord Shiva, the magician, awakes. The Scarlet Woman, whore of heaven, smokes a...
Kenneth Anger, avant-garde filmmaker and author of the infamous Hollywood Babylon series, discusses "The Wickedest Man in the World," Aleister Crowley. A British occultist, hedonist, and author, Crowley inspired a fanatical following in the 20th century through his occult writings.
With its blistering rock and roll soundtrack, Kenneth Anger’s 1963 film Scorpio Rising – his twelfth short in 23 years – could be seen as a prelude to the music video. Its stress on stimulating and engaging imagery – at times only marginally related to the music – further builds on the correlation. Yet few music videos, if any, have achieved this type of widespread admiration, or expressed this type of analytical potential. In its 28-minute running time, the experimental film ostensibly follows a group of young motorcycle aficionados as they prepare for a night on the town. A race, which seems to take place after the nocturnal events but could just as likely have happened before, concludes the picture. While there is no strict narrative to speak of, nor even remotely fleshed-out character...
Filmed at The States Museum for the Arts (SMK) in Copenhagen, 2008.
"Lucifer Rising" by Kenneth Anger Music by Chinaski - recorded Live @ Hotel International - 12/08/16 Mainz 2016 inclusive massiv movie soundtrack samples, unreleased music and released music Video extracted and dubbed from Lucifer Rising. Original Soundtrack by Bobby Beausoleil. No Film right inclusive. No copyright infringement intended, this is a musical tribute.
"A Slavonic Mass by Leos Janácek plays as historical figures, biblical characters, and mythical creatures gather in the pleasure dome. Aphrodite, Lilith, Isis, Kali, Astarte, Nero, Pan, and the Great Beast and the Scarlet Woman are part of a visual feast of images superimposed, hallucinations, and the spirit of decadence of the "Yellow '90s." Mythological images from Aleister Crowley, cabalistic symbols, artifice, and magic combine to render the pleasure dome both as prison and as celebration. "
Kenneth Anger influences a new generation--Sean Lennon and James Franco.
In 1978, Anger re-cut his landmark 1954 film, Inauguration Of The Pleasure Dome by several minutes as well as changing the score of the film he had previous selected, Glagolitic Mass by the Czech composer Leoš Janáček. This re-constructed version, offered here today features Anger's choice of the 1974 Electric Light Orchestra album, 'Eldorado' as score. This edition of the film would be labeled by Anger as his "Sacred Mushroom Edition". Anger successfully screened this E.L.O. version of the film at the 1978 Boston Film Festival. This festival exhibition would be the only time in history this version of Anger's film had been seen, until now.
Now available on DVD ON DEMAND through our BLOG: revoirvideo.blogspot.com/ Elliott’s Suicide (2007, 15 min, video) A homage to the late American singer-songwriter Elliott Smith, Elliott’s Suicide is a sentimental 15 minute tribute, lacking Anger’s usual irony for obvious reasons. The film begins with shots of friends’ and fans’ last words written on Smith’s memorial on Sunset Boulevard, then to footage of a Macy’s parade, focusing closely on the oddly outfitted participants, some in renaissance attire, cowboys with lassos, and beauty queens. The film is scored with Smith’s music, resulting in a melancholy effect, especially in the segment that follows Smith through the woods and films him as he digs up a guitar, then plays a song. This footage is repeated in the end of the film, but in ...
STATEMENT : Dr. Kenneth Anger on “DEATH” As a firm believer in resurrection, I approach the subject of “DEATH” not as the closing of a final door, but as a beginning. In my short cinepoem “DEATH” I begin with a golden skull, and conclude with the silver death mask of the notorious gangster, John Dillinger. In between we see the bunks and bodies of two of the Heaven’s Gaters, deluded into believing by an evil cult that death by suicide would deliver them to a waiting flying saucer. Then a succession of silver embossed tantric skulls of enlightened ones lead us to the necessary conclusion. By these small token gestures I chose to broach the vast subject that remains unknowable. Death is indeed the spice of life -for without it life would have no meaning. It is necessary to give form, pacin...
Directed by Cosmotropia De Xam Video excerpt of Artfilm Kosmische Puppen III starring Shivabel DVD available for pre-order via http://phantasmadisques.bigcartel.com (release date 1st August 2012) Gloom remixes soon via http://desirerecords.bigcartel.com follow Crossover on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/CROSSOVER/113630821530 follow Mater Suspiria Vision on facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mater-Suspiria-Vision/10150124664305212
Now available on DVD ON DEMAND through our BLOG http://revoirvideo.blogspot.com/ Mouse Heaven Directed by Kenneth Anger, Appearing in Person US 2004, video, color, silent, 10 min. Anger’s spirited celebration of Mickey Mouse reveals his consummate skills as an editor, able to musically interweave a staggering profusion of Mickeys, a panoply of shapes and sizes that suggest the multiple lives of a popular cultural icon who has truly taken on almost religious dimensions. (Harvard Film Archive)
Technicolor Skull is a real sensory experience, about 20 minutes long, exploring the mental impact of a magick ritual in the context of an improvised performance. With Brian Butler at the special guitar and the electronics, and Kenneth Anger at the theremin and visuals, the collaboration of these two Californian artists gives birth to a “ceremony” that is enchanting and spectral as well. An initiation to occult rituals, and an event that will leave a mark on you. The performance will be followed by The Occult program, a screening of Magick Cinema composed of several rare films by the two artists they will introduce themselves: Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (Kenneth Anger, 1954, 38min) Brush of Baphomet (Kenneth Anger, 2009, 7 min) Night of Pan (Brian Butler, 2009, 7 min) Union of Opp...
AUTUMN / WINTER 2011 SHORT FASHION FILM his movies are like “fabrics, three dimensional textures, un-missable plots of colors and images in motion.” This also explains her fascination for the Californian filmakers oeuvre, together with the reasons for such a collaboration.
James Kalm wanders through the unusual installation of Kenneth Anger bringing viewers along for a brief glimpse of the first major survey of his work in over ten years. Kenneth Anger (b.1927) has been a cult classic, producing some of the most legendary underground films of the last half century. As a native Californian with deep ties to Hollywood, Anger’s innovative use of saturated color, Pop, and Rock and Roll soundtracks and mysterious allusions to rituals, celebrity and subcultures, have distinguished him as a harbinger of societal evolution.
Now available on DVD ON DEMAND through our BLOG revoirvideo.blogspot.com/ Foreplay (2008, 7 min, video) Directed by Kenneth Anger Leave it to Kenneth Anger to turn footage of a very non-professional men’s soccer team warming up for practice into a sweaty, sexy, homoerotic seven minutes. Rarely does an entire figure appear in Foreplay, but rather snippets of sweaty, twitching muscles, well-endowed groins, and sculpted calves kicking balls, producing flesh-slapping sound effects to a score of techno music. Initially Foreplay looks like a crappy home video of soccer practice, but it’s also reminiscent of Anger’s pop/fetish films Scorpio Rising (1963) and Kustom Kar Kommandos (1965). excerpt from "New Films from Kenneth Anger" by Mary Hanlon (The Brooklyn Rail, Inc.)
http://proyectoidis.org/kenneth-anger/
Filmed at The States Museum for the Arts (SMK) in Copenhagen, 2008.
The Films of Kenneth Anger 3 Magick Lantern Cycle Invocation of my Demon Brother 1969, 11 minutes. Music by Mick Jagger. Cast: Speed Hacker (Wandbearer), Lenore Kandel (Deaconess), William Beutel (Deacon), Kenneth Anger(Magus), Van Leuven (Acolyte), Harvey Bialy (Brother), Timotha Bialy (Sister), Anton Szander LaVey (Satan), Bobby Beausoleil (Lucifer). "A conjuration of pagan forces that comes off the screen in a surge of spiritual and mystical power. It has wierdly compelling imagery, with a soundtrack by Mick Jagger that has the insistent hallucinatory power of voodoo." -- L.A. Free Press "The Shadowing forth of Lord Lucifer, as the Powers gather at a midnight mass." -- Kenneth Anger Lucifer Rising 1970-1980, 28 minutes A presentation of Anita Pallenberg. Music by Bobby Beausoliel and...
Kenneth Anger 1954 Music by Janacek (Glagolithic Mass). Cast: Samson DeBrier (Lord Shiva, Osiris, The Great Beast), Cameron (The Scarlet Woman, Kali), Katy Kadell (Isis), Renata Loome (Lilith), Anais Nin (Astarte), Paul Mathison (Pan), Curtis Harrington (Cesare the Somnambulist), Kenneth Anger (Hecate), Peter Loome (Ganymede). "The film is derived from one of Aleister Crowley's dramatic rituals where people in the cult assume the identity of a god or a goddess. I wanted to create a feeling of being carried into a world of wonder, and the use of color and fantasy is progressive. In other words, it expands, it becomes completely subjective -- like when people take communion and one sees it through their eyes. ... Lord Shiva, the magician, awakes. The Scarlet Woman, whore of heaven, smokes a...