The best Kenneth Anger’s movies
Today we present the best Kenneth Anger’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Kenneth Anger’s movies.
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
7.8/10
A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.
Invocation of My Demon Brother
6.5/10
The shadowing forth of Our Lord Lucifer, as the Power of Darkness gather at a midnight mass. The dance of the Magus widdershins around the Swirling Spiral Force, the solar swastika, until the Bringer of Light—Lucifer—breaks through.
Langlois
6.6/10
Documentary portrait of Henri Langlois, co-founder of the Cinémathèque Française.
Lucifer Rising
7.1/10
Egyptian gods summons the angel Lucifer - in order to usher in a new occult age.
Fireworks
7/10
Fireworks revolves around a young man (played by Anger himself) associating with various navy sailors, who eventually turn on him, stripping him naked and beating him to death, ripping open his chest to find a clock ticking inside. Several fireworks then explode, accompanied by a burning Christmas tree and the final shot shows the young man lying in bed next to another topless man.
FLicKeR
6.4/10
In 1960, Brion Gysin invented the Dream Machine, a hypnotic light device with the power to induce hallucinations, drugless highs, and revolutionize human consciousness. It looks simple enough; a 100-watt light bulb, a motor, and a rotating cylinder with cutouts. Just sit in front of it, close your eyes, and wait for the visions to come. The Dream Machine enthralled mystics and freethinkers everywhere; Kurt Cobain had a dream machine, and William S. Burroughs thought it could be used to “storm the citadels of enlightenment.” With a custom-made Dream Machine in tow, director Nik Sheehan takes us on a journey into the life of Brion Gysin; his art, his complex ideas, and his friendships with some of the most eccentric counter-cultural icons. Taking the Dream Machine as the basis of its explorations, FLicKeR asks crucial questions about the nature of art and consciousness, and imagines a humanity liberated to explore its creativity in complete freedom.
Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star
6.6/10
"Secrets of a Hollywood Star" is another documentary made after "Calling Hedy Lamarr" in 2006. It features interviews with Hedy's friends in both Europe and Hollywood and her film/studio partners.
Jonas in the Desert
6.8/10
Not a documentary in the strictest sense of the word. Rather, it is a journey through the world of the artist Jonas Mekas - one of the exponents of independent U.S. movies; founder and director of the New York Anthology Film Archive.
Mansfield 66/67
6.1/10
About the last two years of movie goddess Jayne Mansfield’s life and the speculation swirling around her untimely death being caused by a curse after her alleged romantic dalliance with Anton LaVey, head of the Church of Satan.
The Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome
7/10
Lord Shiva wakes. A convocation of magicians in the guise of figures from mythology; a masquerade party at which Pan is the prize. The wine of Hecate is poured: Pan's cup is poisoned by Shiva. Kali blesses the assembly as a bacchic rite ensues.
The Dead
5.4/10
An experimental short film from Stan Brakhage.
42 One Dream Rush
5.8/10
An omnibus of 42 short films by auteur directors based on Dreams.
Birth of a Nation
7.1/10
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
Anger Me
6.7/10
Elio Gelmini interviews Avantgarde filmmaker Kenneth Anger. With archive footage of Angers films, he portrays the filmmaker from his childhood until present day.
Anton LaVey - Into the Devil's Den
In 1989, I met Anton LaVey for the first time. At this time in his life, LaVey was seeing only a select few people. For this film, I've met and interviewed some of them, to try and create a composite image of what he was really like, and what he meant to these people. It's a memory lane trip, filled with personal stories, dark humor, great music and never before seen material with the "Black Pope" himself.
Night of Pan
6.1/10
A magician encounters the void that separates the human mind from divine consciousness and in turn faces the mad god.
Busby Berkeley: Going Through the Roof
8.7/10
Documentary profile of legendary dance choreographer Busby Berkeley.
The Beach Boys and The Satan
6.2/10
A German documentary that explores the connections between the Beach Boys, the Manson Family, and Anton LeVay's Church of Satan.
Kenneth Anger - Magier des Untergrundfilms
7.3/10
Anger discusses his Aleister Crowley-inspired theories of art: How he views his camera like a wand and how he casts his films, preferring to consider his actors, not human beings but as elemental spirits. In fact, he reveals that he goes so far as to use astrology when making these choices. This is as direct an explanation of Anger’s cinemagical modus operandi as I have ever heard him articulate anywhere. It’s a must see for anyone interested in his work and showcases the Magus of cinema at the very height of his artistic powers. Fascinating. (Dangerous Minds)
Cinemagician: Conversations with Kenneth Anger
Iconic American filmmaker Kenneth Anger has inspired generations of creative storytellers since the late 1940s. He is a unique visionary who drifts from pure poetry within his magical filmmaking to sardonic gossip in his bestselling "Hollywood Babylon" books. In-between these extremes we find a person who never tires of exploring his own creativity. In this intimate documentary, Anger lets us in on his fascinating life story, his approaches to filmmaking, and his relationship to British occultist Aleister Crowley.
