Kenneth Anger
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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Fotos
Películas (66)
24 Hour Sunset
2023
Anton LaVey: Into the Devil's Den
2019 · Himself
Cinemagician: Conversations with Kenneth Anger
2019
Mansfield 66/67
2017 · Self
Satan Lives
2015 · Self
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
2015
Technicolor Skull
2014 · Director
Airships
2013 · Director
42 One Dream Rush
2010 · Lucifer, Director
Missoni
2010 · Director
FLicKeR
2009 · Self
Brush of Baphomet
2009 · Director
Night of Pan
2009 · Lucifer
Ich will!
2008 · Director
Uniform Attraction
2008 · Director
Foreplay
2008 · Director
365 Day Project
2007 · Self
The Films of Kenneth Anger: Volume Two
2007 · Director, Writer
Disinfo.Con
2007 · Self
The Films of Kenneth Anger: Volume One
2007 · Director, Writer
My Surfing Lucifer
2007 · Director
Elliott's Suicide
2007 · Director
I'll Be Watching You
2007 · Director, Writer
Anger Me
2006 · Himself
Notes on Marie Menken
2006 · Self
Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star
2006
Anger Sees Red
2004 · Director, Writer
Mouse Heaven
2004 · Director
The Spells of Kenneth Anger
2003 · himself
Busby Berkeley: Going Through the Roof
2003 · Self
The Man We Want to Hang
2002 · Director
Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story
2002 · Self (uncredited)
Rescued from the Closet
2001 · Self
Don't Smoke That Cigarette
1999 · Director
A Spy in the House of Love
1998 · Himself
The Beach Boys and The Satan
1997 · Self
Birth of a Nation
1997 · Self
Darryl F. Zanuck: 20th Century Filmmaker
1995 · Self
Jonas in the Desert
1994 · Self
Hollywood Babylon II
1992 · Writer
Kenneth Anger’s Hollywood Babylon
1991 · Himself
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1986 · Self (archive footage)
The Rolling Stones - The First 20 Years
1982 · Self
Rabbit's Moon
1979 · Director
Senators in Bondage
1976 · Producer, Writer, Director, Editor
Lucifer Rising
1974 · The Magus (uncredited), Director, Editor, Producer
Magick Lantern Cycle
1974 · Dreamer / Hecate / The Magick / The Magus, Director, Writer, Cinematography, Editor, Director of Photography
Look Back at Anger
1974 · Self
Hollywood Babylon
1972 · Book
Rabbit's Moon
1971 · Writer, Editor, Director, Director of Photography
Langlois
1970 · Self
Kenneth Anger: Film as Magical Ritual
1970 · Himself
Invocation of My Demon Brother
1969 · The Magick (uncredited), Director, Editor, Director of Photography, Writer
Kustom Kar Kommandos
1965 · Writer, Editor, Director, Director of Photography
Scorpio Rising
1964 · Director, Director of Photography, Writer, Editor
Arabesque for Kenneth Anger
1961
The Dead
1960
The Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome
1954 · Hecate, Writer, Director, Director of Photography, Editor
Eaux d'Artifice
1953 · Director, Director of Photography, Producer, Editor
Puce Moment
1949 · Writer, Director, Editor, Producer
Fireworks
1947 · Dreamer (uncredited), Writer, Director, Editor
Escape Episode
1947 · Director
The Nest
1943 · Director
Prisoner of Mars
1942 · Director, Writer
Tinsel Tree
1942 · Director
Who Has Been Rocking My Dreamboat
1941 · Writer, Director