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Kenneth Anger is universally recognised as one of the most important filmmakers in the history of cinema - the pre-eminent figure of the American avant-garde, acclaimed author of the notorious "Hollywood Babylon" books and a major influence on the development of Western pop culture. His visionary work has also had a profound effect on American mainstream cinema, influencing a number of important directors including Andy Warhol, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola and David Lynch.
Features the shorts:
- PUCE MOMENT:
A soundtrack plays folk rock as a woman prepares, at noon, to take her Borzois for a walk. She goes through her dresses, all 1920's style flapper gowns, holding them one at a time, shaking them as if they are dancing. She picks one - in puce. She puts it on, delighted, adds perfume, languishes on a chaise for a few minutes, then goes for her walk. It all has a 20's feel.
- INVOCATION OF MY DEMON BROTHER:
Experimental short, featuring strobe-like homoerotic imagery with several shots of the Rolling Stones in performance and an original synthesizer score by Mick Jagger.
- LUCIFER RISING:
Dedicated to Anger's idol, the occult writer Alistair Crowley, the film depicts a "Dionysian Revel".
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