Kenneth Anger - Фильмы

Kenneth Anger (born Kenneth Wilbur ANGLE Meyer; August 3, 1927) is an American experimental underground filmmaker, actor and author. Working exclusively in short films, he has produced almost forty works since 1937, nine of which in particular have been группировка together as the "Magick Cycle," and the form основанием of Anger's reputation as one of the most influential independent filmmakers in history cinema фонарь. His films variously merge with surrealism homoeroticism and the occult, and have been described as containing "elements of erotica, documentary, психодрама, and spectacle." Anger himself has been described as "one of america's first openly gay filmmakers, and certainly the first whose work addressed гомосексуальности в 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 легализация of гомосексуальности in the United States. He has also focused upon оккультизм темы in many of his films, being fascinated by the notorious English occultist Алистер Кроули, and is a follower of Crowley's религии, 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 Огюст и Луи Люмьер и Жоржа Мельеса as influences, and has been cited as an important influence on later режиссеры, как Мартин Скорсезе, Дэвид Линч и Джон Уотерс.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 тип прессформы 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 Альфред Кинси, художник Жан Кокто, playwright Tennessee Williams and musicians Мик Джаггер, Кит Ричардс, Джимми Пейдж и Марианна Фэйтфул. 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.