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Kenneth Anger

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  • 1927 - Present Day

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Kenneth Anger (born Kenneth Wilbur Anglemeyer; 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 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kenneth Anger, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

Birthday: 1927-02-03

Born At: Santa Monica, California, USA

Casted In:

Lucifer Rising
36096
Invocation of My Demon Brother
42606
The Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome
43337
Fireworks
44296
Disinfo.Con
67895
FLicKeR
68048
Anger Me
75331
Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon
85779
The Dead
145033
Darryl F. Zanuck: 20th Century Filmmaker
151018
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
190060
42 One Dream Rush
191476
Arabesque for Kenneth Anger
209714
Notes on Marie Menken
213825
Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star
217783
Birth of a Nation
295120
The Beach Boys and The Satan
319204
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
359544
Night of Pan
385702
Kenneth Anger - Magier des Untergrundfilms
395530
Langlois
421509
Jonas in the Desert
458074

Crewed In:

Lucifer Rising
36096
Invocation of My Demon Brother
42606
The Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome
43337
Fireworks
44296
Kustom Kar Kommandos
46780
Puce Moment
46781
Rabbit's Moon
46784
Scorpio Rising
46787
The Man We Want to Hang
49180
Eaux d'artifice
65421
Magick Lantern Cycle
74953
My Surfing Lucifer
104814
Anger Sees Red
106441
Don't Smoke That Cigarette
113622
Missoni
113953
Mouse Heaven
113989
42 One Dream Rush
191476
Brush of Baphomet
211160
Ich will!
211162
Airships 1, 2, 3
220054
Death
353905
Tinsel Tree
360175
The Films of Kenneth Anger: Volume One
383290
The Films of Kenneth Anger: Volume Two
383293
Senators in Bondage
433394
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