Kenneth Anger
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Kenneth Anger (born Kenneth Wilbur Anglemeyer; February 3, 1927 - May 11, 2023) was an American underground experimental filmmaker, actor and author. Working exclusively in short films, he produced almost forty works since 1937, nine of which in particular have been grouped together as the "Magick Lantern Cycle," and form the basis of Anger's reputation as one of the most influential independent filmmakers in cinema history. 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." Some of his particularly homoerotic works, such as Fireworks (1947) and Scorpio Rising (1964), were produced prior to the legalisation of homosexuality in the United States. He has also focused upon occult themes in many of his films, being fascinated by the notorious English occultist Aleister Crowley, and is a follower of Crowley's religion, Thelema. This influence is evident from films like Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954), Invocation of My Demon Brother (1969) and Lucifer Rising (1972).
Anger has described filmmakers such as Auguste and Louis Lumière and Georges Méliès as influences, and has been cited as an important influence on later film directors like Martin Scorsese, David Lynch and John Waters.He has also been described as having "a profound impact on the work of many other filmmakers and artists, as well as on music video as an emergent art form using dream sequence, dance, fantasy, and narrative." During the 1960s and 70s he associated and worked with a number of different figures in popular culture and the occult, including Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey, sexologist Alfred Kinsey, artist Jean Cocteau, playwright Tennessee Williams and musicians Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Jimmy Page and Marianne Faithfull. He is also the author of the controversial best seller Hollywood Babylon (1959) and its sequel Hollywood Babylon II (1986), in which he claims to expose many of the rumours and secrets of Hollywood celebrities.
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Behind the Camera
Babylon
Original Story
42 One Dream Rush
Director
Magick Lantern Cycle
Director, Escritor, Dir. de Fotografía, Editor
The Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome
Escritor, Director, Dir. de Fotografía, Editor
Scorpio Rising
Director, Dir. de Fotografía, Escritor, Editor
Rabbit's Moon
Escritor, Editor, Director, Dir. de Fotografía
Puce Moment
Escritor, Director, Editor, Productor
The Films of Kenneth Anger: Volume Two
Director, Escritor
Hollywood Babylon
Book
Invocation of My Demon Brother
Director, Editor, Dir. de Fotografía, Escritor
Eaux d'Artifice
Director, Dir. de Fotografía, Productor, Editor
Lucifer Rising
Director, Editor, Productor
Fireworks
Escritor, Director, Editor
Rabbit's Moon
Director
The Films of Kenneth Anger: Volume One
Director, Escritor
The Man We Want to Hang
Director
Elliott's Suicide
Director
Foreplay
Director
Technicolor Skull
Director
Missoni
Director
I'll Be Watching You
Director
Mouse Heaven
Director
Kustom Kar Kommandos
Escritor, Editor, Director, Dir. de Fotografía
Brush of Baphomet
Director
Ich will!
Director
My Surfing Lucifer
Director
Don't Smoke That Cigarette
Director
Who Has Been Rocking My Dreamboat
Escritor, Director
As Actor/Actress
Kenneth Anger: Film als magisches Ritual
Himself
Mansfield 66/67
Self
FLicKeR
Self
42 One Dream Rush
Lucifer
Magick Lantern Cycle
Dreamer / Hecate / The Magick / The Magus
The Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome
Hecate
Rescued from the Closet
Self
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
Self (archive footage)
Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story
Self (uncredited)
The Films of Kenneth Anger: Volume Two
Invocation of My Demon Brother
The Magick (uncredited)
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
Jonas in the Desert
Self
365 Day Project
Self
Lucifer Rising
The Magus (uncredited)
Fireworks
Dreamer (uncredited)
The Rolling Stones - Die ersten 20 Jahre
Self
Birth of a Nation
Self
Langlois
Self
The Films of Kenneth Anger: Volume One
Satan Lives
Self
Darryl F. Zanuck: 20th Century Filmmaker
Self
72 Hours In André Balazs’ Chateau Marmont With Kenneth Anger
Self
Busby Berkeley: Going Through the Roof
Self
Anton LaVey: Into the Devil's Den
Himself
Anger Me
Himself
Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star
Die Beach Boys und der Satan
Self
24 Hour Sunset
Kenneth Anger’s Hollywood Babylon
Himself