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Following Kenneth Anger s death on 11 May, Ryan Meehan explores the experimental occultist filmmaker s life and work, including his working relationship with sound and music
KENNETH ANGER was an audacious filmmaker, a self-proclaimed magus, a never-closeted queer, a shameless scandalmonger, a sometime Satanist, a difficult person, and, as P. Adams Sitney put it, the “conscious artificer of his own myth.” He was also the King of Pop at least that’s what I thought on first seeing Scorpio Rising (1963) in the mid-1960s, age sixteen, at New York’s Museum of Modern Art.There were other movies on that program; I remember being impressed by Gregory Markopoulos’s Ming Green and Ed Emshwiller’s Relativity. But Scorpio Rising blew everything else away: the enameled
In tribute to the pioneering experimental filmmaker, who has died aged 96, we republish this 2009 feature, in which Tony Rayns unpicks the hidden themes and influences that made his work so groundbreaking.