Kenneth Anger at the Cinematheque,Paris, 1950 Marianne Faithful as Lilith in Lucifer Rising, 1980 Donald Cammell as Osiris, Lucifer Rising, 1980 Seal of Crowlery's magick order of Argenteum, good for 10% discount. Kenneth Anger, child of Hollywood. Autograph..... Invocation Of My Demon Brother, Mick Jagger at the moog on the soundtrack. Anger on Crowley, April 2009 Scorpio Rising part one.... Anger...
Name:Travis Chamberlain Title: Public Programs Coordinator at the New Museum, member of The Fabulous Entourage, burgeoning video artist and dancemaker URL: http//www.newmuseum.org/events and http://www.fabulousentourage.com 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I grew up in Fairmont, NC, about 10 minutes away from the tourist trap known as South of [...]
One Dream Rush is a Beijing-based exhibition of 42-second films from 42 film makers on the subject of dreams. It's an interesting premise, though we were a lot more excited before we learned that the film fest was being sponsored by Bacardi's vodka brand 42 Below. Still, the art films/vodka commercials make for lovely viewing. Below, shorts by locals David Lynch and Kenneth Anger : Found via Dangerous...
If you wanna see a theme show that demonstrates how lame theme shows can be, try the omnium gatherum MOBY-DICK at CCA . By using the hyphen—and italics—at least the curators indicate they are dealing with the book, not the whale itself, who is, as you may remember, unhyphenated (except once). Here's an item by an artist whom I will allow to remain nameless: I won't mention the chandelier...
Here’s a link to the great Meshes Of The Afternoon by Maya Deren and her husband Alexander Hamid. This was required watching in Film School and it expresses Hollywood 1943 Art Film like no other except maybe Kenneth Anger’s Fireworks. Underground Film in all it’s glory! Maya At Work Editing One Of Her Films
There is, I believe, always a morality to art, or should be. For the artist - and the curator, the editor, the critic, those other interlocutors - is a maker of choices as well as the work itself. We still refer to certain art as "naive" or "primitive" or "outsider" usually because we see it as coming without the interlocution or that it doesn't come with an intellectual...
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/culture/2009/09/29/fever-ray-at-webster-hall-lasers-shrunken-heads-swedes.html “If the psychedelic filmmaker Kenneth Anger somehow commandeered the controls at Walt Disney World’s Haunted Mansion, the result might look like last night’s Fever Ray show at Webster Hall in New York City.”
Sep 22 – Dec 12 Tuesdays (11am–7pm) Wednesdays (11am–6pm) Thursdays (11am–7pm) Fridays–Saturdays (11am–6pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts Moby Dick has long been a springboard for grand considerations of everything from transcendental philosophy to racism and political upheaval. Melville's classic is the inspiration behind the Wattis' whale of a new...
Wild Tigers I Have Known - dir. Cam Archer In thinking back on my Film 1 class, I seem to recall the way in which my professor defined cinema. All of the students were asked to present the ideas for their final projects in front of the class and place them into one of three categories: narrative, experimental or "experimental narrative." It was the first time I'd ever had to apply those specific...
By Kevin B. Lee and Brandon Soderberg Lucifer Rising (1972) took Kenneth Anger a decade to make—and remake—after the Manson Family stole and destroyed the original print. What survives is an incantatory envisioning of a sacred rite that spans the world and traverses centuries of occult history. Despite having its copious array of montage and staging techniques pilfered by hundreds of music...
Many thanks to Moving Image Source for hosting this effort – you can read the full text of the essay on their site. And special thanks to Brandon Soderberg (aka one of the best hip-hop/music video writers I know) for the big assist on this baby. This was a fun one fu sho’:
So, over at the Museum of Moving Image's website , a video essay by Kevin Lee and myself that investigates sixties underground filmmaker Kenneth Anger's immeasurable influence on music videos is up. From Anger's weirdo, Manson-family member scored Lucifer Rising to Hype Williams, back to 90s alt-rock and Wu Tang, to Hercules & Love Affair--all in nine minutes. Partially narrated in my fruity-ass...