Kenneth Anger

Born in Santa Monica in 1930, Kenneth Anger is one of the most enigmatic figures of New American Cinema. Many stories are entwined around countless films that were planned, cancelled, stolen, destroyed voluntarily and by someone else. Often recut by Anger or given a new soundtrack, nine films - completed between 1947 and 1980 - remain as unique masterpieces of film history, which will now be shown in Vienna. He himself summarises them with the title Kenneth Anger's Magick Lantern Cycle.

Even as a child he had contact with the Hollywood he later unmasked in his legendary book "Hollywood Babylon". As a four-year-old he played the role of the Little Prince in Max Reinhardt's A Midsummer Night's Dream. He began making films himself at the age of seven, and after six juvenile works he created Fireworks in 1947, an early major work of avant-garde and gay cinema. His depiction of American culture in Scorpio Rising influenced the American and international avant-garde film movement and influenced directors such as Martin Scorsese, David Lynch and Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Program
Fireworks (1947, 16mm, b/w, 15 Min.)
Puce Moment (1949/1953, 16mm, colour, 6 Min.)
Eaux D'Artifice (1953, 16mm, colour, 13 Min.)
Inauguration Of The Pleasure Dome (1954, 16mm, colour, 38 Min.)
Scorpio Rising (1963, 16mm, colour, 29 Min.)
Kustom Kar Kommandos (1965, 16mm, colour, 4 Min.)
Invocation Of My Demon Brother (1969, 16mm, colour, 11 Min.)
Rabbit's Moon (1950/1972, 16mm, b/w, 7 Min.)
Lucifer Rising (1970-1980, 16mm, colour, 30 Min.)

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