The films of Kenneth Anger volume one poll: yes I know, this has been sorta done before but wait

I have no idea what "boring" is an autocorrect for in c. Viewing maybe? Fuck u phone

Oh ha voting probably. Goddamn it

Ok just finished "Fireworks" and I am mostly overcome with the how the fuck is it possible that this existed in 1947 but that is not meant to diminish the fact that it is just stunningly brilliant and amazing

That's what always kills me about Anger. You watch something and you think it's some recent art-short, but no. Then you think it's maybe some Warhol imitator but it's still older...

Oh, and the right answer is Rabbit's Moon

Which is what i am watching right now and holy shit

Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome w/ the ELO s/t, pl

Pleasure Dome is my favourite Anger by far. AMAZING.

yeah pleasure dome's hard to beat but I guess this is a good excuse to rescreen them all

also kind of weird to not poll his full filmography rather than leave the poll to the vagaries of DVD packaging but w/e

http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpr88rnOLS1qm7kd2o1_500.jpg

these are all great on their own individual merits, and are so distinct and different it's hard to pick one (if Lucifer Rising were on here I'd vote for that...)

Have we done any other experimental short films polls. I need an excuse to rewatch some Brakhage...

I think 'Rabbit's Moon' might be the only one of these I've seen? Or maybe 'Pleasure Dome' too, not sure. Would've preferred a full filmography poll, anyway.

Don't think we've done experimental short films poll but some avant-garde stuff has come up in the decades poll and the animation poll...

*decades polls, plural

im going to follow this up with a poll on volume 2, so now worries full poll peeps. also honestly full filmography polls always sort of disappoint me because the votes get so spread (not guessing that an anger poll is going to exactly bring in a flood of votes either way)

has anyone ever established whether his whole "Hollywood child actor" thing is bullshit or not

Pleasure Dome definitely, it looks like they had so much fun making that film.

I loved Rabbit's Moon because of the doo-wop score. Take that away, and it wouldn't hold any interest for me.

Without Fireworks, there would be no gays today. Voting Fireworks.

Vol. 2 will be a tougher call.

Take that away, and it wouldn't hold any interest for me.

have you seen the version with the glam score

has anyone ever established whether his whole "Hollywood child actor" thing is bullshit or not

it's mainly his claim that he appeared as the young prince in the 1930s version of Midsummer Night's Dream - which, from the look of his wiki page, does seem like an untruth - or, to put a Angerian gloss on it, it was an incantation designed to make a desire a reality

think i've put this on ilx before, but shows he's still got it imho:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z_X3-PDGwE

Didn't really love Mouse Heaven.

Oh, and his Q&A at the Walker a few years back was a delightful scandal!

http://cansesclasseled.wordpress.com/2007/01/27/what-i-learned-during-an-evening-with-kenneth-anger/

This is missing a lot of stuff. Where is "Scorpio" or "Lucifer Rising"?

Voting "Puce Moment" for the amazing soundtrack.

did you miss the "volume one" part

doh

volume two is

Scorpio Rising (1964)
Kustom Kar Kommandos (1965)
Invocation of My Demon Brother (1969)
Rabbit's Moon (1979) - glam version shakey was talking about
Lucifer Rising (1981)
The Man We Want to Hang (2002)

tho splitting them will make it easier for me to vote for invocation of my demon brother, quite possibly my favorite film title of all time

have you seen the version with the glam score

― what's up ugly girls? (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, September 18, 2013 1:17 PM

Not sure if you're kidding or not, but I did see one of his films (Pleasure Dome?) where he'd added a whole lot of ELO music years later. (I think it all may have been from the same album.) Loved that, too.

Rabbit's Moon (1979) - glam version shakey was talking about

― a hard dom is good to find (Edward III), Wednesday, September 18, 2013 1:44 PM (56 minutes ago)

here's a blog post about it
http://www.20jazzfunkgreats.co.uk/wordpress/2013/09/rentaghost-the-musical/

The glam version is the one w "It Came in the Night"

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Really? Huh.

despite that being my last minute vote after really really being up in the air between it and fireworks, i am fairly surprised by this result as well

you weirdos

interviewed by Harmony Korine:
http://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/kenneth-anger#_

from Facebook pic.twitter.com/SIOc9XPvZg

— Marc Masters 🌵 (@Marcissist) February 3, 2023

that is … not good

but also surprised that he is still (theoretically) alive.

This is surely the thread bump before the the Thread Bump that we are all waiting for...

I saw a great magazine profile of him when he was living in New York in the 80s. His apartment was painted vibrant red and was like a museum for old days of Hollywood with items and relics he’s collected over the years on display.