Kenneth Anger

Kenneth Anger (born Kenneth Wilbur Anglemeyer; July 3, 1927) is an American underground experimental cineasta, actor and author. Working exclusively en short films, he has produced casi cuarenta works since 1937, nine of which en particular have been grouped together as the "Magick Lantern Ciclo," y la form the basis of Anger's reputación as one of the most influential independent filmmakers en cinema historia. His película variously merge surrealism with homoeroticism and the occult, and have been described as containing "elements of erotica, documental, psicodrama, and espectáculo." La ira, el propio has been described as one of america's first openly gay rapidshare, and certainly the first whose trabajo addressed homosexuality en undisguised, self-implicating hombres," y su "role en la prestación de gay culture visible within American cinema, commercial or otherwise, is impossible to sobrestimar." Some of his particularly homoerotic works, such as Fireworks (1947) y Scorpio Rising (1964), were producido prior to the legalización of homosexuality in the United States. He has also focused upon oculto temas en many of his película, being fascinated by the notorious English occultist Aleister Crowley, and is a seguidores de Crowley's de la religión de Thelema. This influence is evident from película like Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954), Invocation of My Demon Brother (1969) y Lucifer Rising (1972). Anger has descrito rapidshare, such as Auguste and Louis Lumière and Georges Méliès as influencias, and has been cited as an important influence on later película de los directores de like Martin Scorsese, David Lynch y John Waters.He has also been described as having "a profound impact on the work of many other rapidshare and artists, as well as on music video as an emergent tipo de forma using dream sequence, la danza, la fantasía y de la narrativa." 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 fundador Anton LaVey, sexologist Alfred Kinsey, artista Jean Cocteau, playwright Tennessee Williams and musicians, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Jimmy Page and Marianne Faithfull. He is also the author of the controversial best seller Hollywood Babilonia (1959) and its, la secuela de Hollywood Babylon II (1986), which he claims to expose many of the rumours and secrets of celebrities de Hollywood.