Kenneth Anger
Biography
Kenneth Anger (born Kenneth Wilbur Anglemeyer; February 3, 1927 - May 11, 2023) was an American underground experimental filmmaker, actor and author. Working exclusively in short films, he produced almost forty works since 1937, nine of which in particular have been grouped together as the "Magick Lantern Cycle," and form the basis of Anger's reputation as one of the most influential independent filmmakers in cinema history. His films variously merge surrealism with homoeroticism and the occult, and have been described as containing "elements of erotica, documentary, psychodrama, 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 an undisguised, self-implicating manner," and his "role in rendering gay culture visible within American cinema, commercial or otherwise, is impossible to overestimate." Some of his particularly homoerotic works, such as Fireworks (1947) and Scorpio Ri...
Known For
Top 40 Movies
Arabesque for Kenneth Anger
1961
Satan Lives
2015
72 Hours In André Balazs’ Chateau Marmont With Kenneth Anger
2018
The Beach Boys and The Satan
1997
Cinemagician: Conversations with Kenneth Anger
2019
365 Day Project
2007
Birth of a Nation
1997
Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story
2002
The Dead
1960
Rescued from the Closet
2001
The Films of Kenneth Anger: Volume Two
2007
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
2015
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1986
Lucifer Rising
1974
24 Hour Sunset
2023
The Films of Kenneth Anger: Volume One
2007
The Spells of Kenneth Anger
2003
Darryl F. Zanuck: 20th Century Filmmaker
1995
Jonas in the Desert
1994
The Rolling Stones - The First 20 Years
1982
Magick Lantern Cycle
2019
Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star
2006
Anton LaVey: Into the Devil's Den
2019
Invocation of My Demon Brother
1969
Langlois
1970
Busby Berkeley: Going Through the Roof
2003
42 One Dream Rush
2010
The Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome
1954
FLicKeR
2009
Night of Pan
2009
Mansfield 66/67
2017
Fireworks
1947
Anger Me
2006
Kenneth Anger’s Hollywood Babylon
1991
Kenneth Anger: Film as Magical Ritual
1970
A Spy in the House of Love
1998