Kenneth Anger

Kenneth Anger (born Kenneth Wilbur Anglemeyer; February 3, 1927) is an American underground expérimental réalisateur, acteur et auteur. Working exclusively in short film, he has produced almost forty works since 1937, nine of which in particular have been groupé together as the "Magick Lantern Cycle," et de form the basis of Anger s reputation as one of the most influential independent filmmakers cinema histoire. His film variously fusion surrealism with homoeroticism and the occult, and have been described as containing "elements of erotica, documentaire, psychodrame, and spectacle." Anger himself has been described as "one of america's first openly gay filmmakers, and certainly the first whose work addressed homosexuality in undisguised, self-implicating manner, and his role dans le rendu gay culture visible within American cinema, commercial or otherwise, is impossible to overestimate." Some of his particularly l'works such as Fireworks (1947) et Scorpio Rising (1964), were produced prior to the légalisation of homosexuality in the United States. He has also focused upon occulte themes in many of his film, being fascinated by the notorious English occultist Aleister Crowley, and is a follower of Crowley's de la religion, de Thelema. This influence is evident from film like Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954), Invocation of My Demon Brother (1969) et Lucifer Rising (1972). Anger has described filmmakers, such as Auguste et Louis Lumière et Georges Méliès as influences, and has been cited as an important influence on later film directors like Martin Scorsese, David Lynch and John Waters.He has also been described as having "a profound impact on the work of many other filmmakers and artists, as well as on music video as à émergente de l'art forme using dream sequence, dance, fantasy, and narrative." During the 1960s and 70s he associated and worked with a number of different figures in popular culture and the occult, including Church of Satan propriétaire d'Anton LaVey, sexologist Alfred Kinsey, l'artiste Jean Cocteau, playwright Tennessee Williams and musicians Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Jimmy Page et Marianne Faithfull. He is also the author of the controversial best seller Hollywood Babylon (1959) and its sequel Hollywood Babylon II (1986), in which he claims to expose many of the rumours and secrets of Hollywood celebrities.