Monday night Kenneth Anger trilogy at the Chauvel; Scorpio Rising, Inauguration Of The Pleasure Dome and Lucifer Rising - quite an auspicious way to start the week. Visually entrancing and impeccably soundtracked, I've wanted to see these films ever since references to Anger started turning up all over in my trawlings through pop culture's seedy past.
He's a constant through many threads of rock & roll and Hollywood history, sharing a fascination with Aleister Crowley with Jimmy Page and the Rolling Stones, befriending Manson Family acolytes (former flame of my favourite groupie Miss Pamela - and sometime member of Love - Bobby Beausoleil), authoring the infamous expose of the heart of darkness in America's screen industry, 'Hollywood Babylon'. And now he's doing video campaigns for fashion labels! It's a wonder he's found time to create the films that he has, beautiful pre-cursors to music videos full of occult dreamscapes and tripped-out explorations of classical myth, all decked out in a good dose of homoeroticism and some of the best costumes I've ever seen.
Johanna, i LOVE your writing!
ReplyDeletei had no idea he did a video campaign for Missoni ... which kinda looks exactly like 'Inauguration Of The Pleasure Dome'.