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Kenneth Anger
Directing

Kenneth Anger
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1927-02-03,Santa Monica, California, USA
Gender
Male
Biography
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kenneth Anger, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

8

24 Hour Sunset
2023-09-01

6.9

Lucifer Rising
1974-04-10

5.8

Fireworks
1947-12-31

6

Disinfo.Con
2007-02-20

6.8

FLicKeR
2009-07-14

The Rolling Stones - The First 20 Years

0

The Rolling Stones - The First 20 Years
1982-01-01

8.8

Anger Me
2006-10-23

Darryl F. Zanuck: 20th Century Filmmaker

4

Darryl F. Zanuck: 20th Century Filmmaker
1995-09-03

4.7

The Dead
1960-12-31

He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

8.2

He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1986-02-22

Arabesque for Kenneth Anger

5.7

Arabesque for Kenneth Anger
1961-12-29

Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star

0

Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star
2006-01-21

The Spells of Kenneth Anger

0

The Spells of Kenneth Anger
2003-10-14

72 Hours In André Balazs’ Chateau Marmont With Kenneth Anger

0

72 Hours In André Balazs’ Chateau Marmont With Kenneth Anger
2018-12-25

The Beach Boys and The Satan

3

The Beach Boys and The Satan
1997-10-17

The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin

6

The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
2015-09-08

Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story

0

Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story
2002-02-05

Kenneth Anger’s Hollywood Babylon

0

Kenneth Anger’s Hollywood Babylon
1991-04-05

4.3

Night of Pan
2009-03-09

42 One Dream Rush

0

42 One Dream Rush
2010-09-15

Kenneth Anger: Film as Magical Ritual

5.7

Kenneth Anger: Film as Magical Ritual
1970-04-29

The Films of Kenneth Anger: Volume One

10

The Films of Kenneth Anger: Volume One
2007-01-23

The Films of Kenneth Anger: Volume Two

10

The Films of Kenneth Anger: Volume Two
2007-10-02

4.5

Langlois
1970-09-19

365 Day Project

10

365 Day Project
2007-12-31

Jonas in the Desert

5.5

Jonas in the Desert
1994-01-01

Mansfield 66/67

4.6

Mansfield 66/67
2017-01-29

Notes on Marie Menken

5.4

Notes on Marie Menken
2006-04-20

Birth of a Nation

6.3

Birth of a Nation
1997-08-06

Cinemagician: Conversations with Kenneth Anger

0

Cinemagician: Conversations with Kenneth Anger
2019-04-12

The Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome

6.5

The Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome
1954-03-29

Invocation of My Demon Brother

5.9

Invocation of My Demon Brother
1969-10-10

Anton LaVey: Into the Devil's Den

8

Anton LaVey: Into the Devil's Den
2019-12-06

Busby Berkeley: Going Through the Roof

0

Busby Berkeley: Going Through the Roof
2003-03-28

Prisoner of Mars

0

Prisoner of Mars
1942-01-01

Rescued from the Closet

6

Rescued from the Closet
2001-05-29

Look Back at Anger

0

Look Back at Anger
1974-01-01

Magick Lantern Cycle

8.3

Magick Lantern Cycle
2019-03-08

A Spy in the House of Love

0

A Spy in the House of Love
1998-01-05

6.714

Arena
1975-10-01

2

SexTV
1998-10-17