The films of Kenneth Anger (Magick Lantern Cycle)

“i can't wait to die and go to hell, and the first thing i'm gonna do is kick disney in the balls!" - kenneth anger (1927 - 2023) r.i.p legend 🖤🌹 pic.twitter.com/hpjpRRHiOa

— lucifer rising (@drkkwv) May 24, 2023

Shit, but I knew this was coming,

Managed to snag Hollywood Babylon 2 at a second hand book shop a month or so ago,

Saw him introduce a few of his films at the BFI around 2008.

total Legend.

recommending this for some lesser known Anger details.

http://www.youmustrememberthispodcast.com/episodes/youmustrememberthispodcastblog/2015/6/30/charles-mansons-hollywood-part-6-kenneth-anger-and-bobby-beausoleil

RIP doesn't seem quite right tbh.

Rest In (Magickal) Power?

Go with Horus?

KDITBIP (kick Disney in the balls in peace)

As I've been re-watching his films recently, the thing that really stands out is that each film seems to inhabit its own enclosed and totally consistent universe, an effect that must be nearly impossible to achieve with minimal budget and crew.

wow

Gonna have to rewatch Puce Moment a few dozen times tonight in tribute

Also important to remember that Scorpio Rising was something of a First Amendment milestone:

"When Scorpio Rising was – we've forgotten, in a sense, that it was a groundbreaker, legally…The case had to go to the California Supreme Court to be freed and then it became, like, a landmark case of redeeming social merit. That was the phrase that was used to justify that it wasn't pornography. And, indeed, there's nothing pornographic about it. Somebody had to break the ice and have that kind of case at that time to establish the freedom, because, before then, the police could seize anything they wanted to..."

So I assume every Batman director since at least Tim Burton has closely watched Scorpio Rising, if only as a study in hypermasculinity and machine fetishism?

(I had previously only seen Fireworks, Eaux d'Artifices, and Puce Moment.)