One of the great masters of experimental cinema, Kenneth Anger was born in 1927 and began making films at the age of ten. His first extant film, Fireworks, was made in 1947 and over the next thirty-three years he produced another eight films, collectively referred to as the “Magick Lantern Cycle.” One of those, 1963’s Scorpio Rising, is generally considered one of the key films of the American avant-garde. Since 2000, Anger has made a number of digital video works, including the darkly comic Mickey Mouse memorabilia video Mouse Heaven in 2005. Anger is also the author of the cult book Hollywood Babylon, which was published in France in 1959 and in the U.S. in 1974.
For Patrick Friel's AAFF essay on Kenneth Anger, view "extras" below.
Screening followed by an on-stage conversation between Kenneth Anger and New York film critic Dennis Lim.
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