Most artists, if they’re lucky, invent one thing. But Kenneth Anger, who was a filmmaker, an author, a debauched aristocratic scenester and, to the day of his death at 96 (he reportedly died May 11…
, who was a filmmaker, an author, a debauched aristocratic scenester and, to the day of his death at 96 , a figure of puckish mystery, invented several things, each one of them epic.,” his transcendent 14-minute avant-garde film of 1947, Anger invented the very consciousness and imagery of gay liberation — not the desire to be liberated , but the rapturous visual reverie of what that liberation might look like, what it would feel like, why it seemed so forbidden, and why it needed to be.
Anger, lifting songs of the moment right off the charts, created an explosive counterpoint. As he leads us into the night world of Scorpio, a biker built like a Tom of Finland pin-up, we see men getting dressed in their tough-stud regalia…set to Bobby Vinton singing. We see a skull mounted on the back of Scorpio’s chopper set against the opening beat of “My Boyfriend’s Back,” so that for a moment the death’s head becomes “my boyfriend” .
Yet what I’ve always thought about Anger is that his satanism was not, at its core, an embrace of “evil.” It was, rather, a self-imposed metaphorical mirror of how society had chosen to view him as a gay man. Kenneth Anglemyer was born in Santa Monica in 1927, and in the world he grew up in homosexuality was stigmatized, demonized, criminalized.
You can watch Anger’s Magick Lantern Cycle, the collection of nine films that define him, in about two-and-a-half hours, and over the years I’ve gone back to these movies over and over and over again, watching them almost like album cuts, often late at night.
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