Movies: Kenneth Anger

  • 1954
    The Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome

    The Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954)

    The Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome

    6.51954HD

    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 Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome
  • 1947
    Fireworks

    Fireworks (1947)

    Fireworks

    5.81947HD

    A dissatisfied dreamer awakes, goes out in the night seeking a 'light' and is drawn through the needle's eye. A dream of a dream, he returns to bed less empty than before....

    Fireworks
  • 1969
    Scorpio Rising

    Scorpio Rising (1969)

    Scorpio Rising

    6.71969HD

    A gang of Nazi bikers prepares for a race as sexual, sadistic, and occult images are cut together....

    Scorpio Rising
  • 1974
    Lucifer Rising

    Lucifer Rising (1974)

    Lucifer Rising

    6.91974HD

    Egyptian gods summon the angel Lucifer, in order to usher in a new occult age....

    Lucifer Rising
  • 1986
    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life (1986)

    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

    8.21986HD

    A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas....

    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
  • 1997
    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation (1997)

    Birth of a Nation

    6.31997HD

    Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades....

    Birth of a Nation
  • 1969
    Invocation of My Demon Brother

    Invocation of My Demon Brother (1969)

    Invocation of My Demon Brother

    5.91969HD

    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....

    Invocation of My Demon Brother
  • 2007
    365 Day Project

    365 Day Project (2007)

    365 Day Project

    102007HD

    This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007 and for an entire year, as indicated in the title, a large public (the artist's friends, as well as unknowns...

    365 Day Project
  • 1972
    Hollywood Babylon

    Hollywood Babylon (1972)

    Hollywood Babylon

    4.81972HD

    This is like a documentary on the scandals in the Golden Age of Hollywood during the 1920's. Contains many reenactments of major scandals....

    Hollywood Babylon
  • 2023
    24 Hour Sunset

    24 Hour Sunset (2023)

    24 Hour Sunset

    82023HD

    This film portrait of a new kind is a deep dive into the heart of the art scene of Los Angeles. From a ride on Sunset Boulevard in a convertible car at the sunrise, going through a lunch with the art dealer Patrick Painter and a visit to Peter Shire'...

    24 Hour Sunset
  • 1995
    Darryl F. Zanuck: 20th Century Filmmaker

    Darryl F. Zanuck: 20th Century Filmmaker (1995)

    Darryl F. Zanuck: 20th Century Filmmaker

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    A biography of Darryl F. Zanuck, mogul and the power behind 20th Century Fox throughout the Golden Age....

    Darryl F. Zanuck: 20th Century Filmmaker
  • 2017
    Mansfield 66/67

    Mansfield 66/67 (2017)

    Mansfield 66/67

    4.62017HD

    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....

    Mansfield 66/67
  • 1997
    The Beach Boys and The Satan

    The Beach Boys and The Satan (1997)

    The Beach Boys and The Satan

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    A German documentary that explores the darker side of the Beach Boys, primarily focusing on Brian Wilson and the Pet Sounds album, with detours to the Manson Family....

    The Beach Boys and The Satan
  • 1994
    Jonas in the Desert

    Jonas in the Desert (1994)

    Jonas in the Desert

    5.51994HD

    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....

    Jonas in the Desert
  • 2010
    42 One Dream Rush

    42 One Dream Rush (2010)

    42 One Dream Rush

    02010HD

    Collection of short films by various directors based on dreams, 42 seconds each. It was produced by the world's most awarded vodka "42 Below", known for doing things differently , with other Chinese User Generated Films....

    42 One Dream Rush
  • 1942
    Tinsel Tree

    Tinsel Tree (1942)

    Tinsel Tree

    01942HD

    Made when Anger was only 14 years old, Tinsel Tree is a short that demonstrated his early disdain for the Christmas season. Anger shows the Christmas tree as it is decorated in a series of close-ups, then the post-Christmas tree is shown burning in a...

    Tinsel Tree
  • 2002
    Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story

    Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story (2002)

    Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story

    02002HD

    The story of the short film from the beginning of the movies in the 1890s, when all movies were shorts, through the 1950s when short subjects virtually disappeared from theaters....

    Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story
  • 2001
    Rescued from the Closet

    Rescued from the Closet (2001)

    Rescued from the Closet

    62001HD

    A collection of interviews recorded for the making of the 1995 documentary "The Celluloid Closet," on the subject of LGBT representation in film history....

    Rescued from the Closet
  • 1970
    Langlois

    Langlois (1970)

    Langlois

    4.51970HD

    Documentary portrait of Henri Langlois, co-founder of the Cinémathèque Française....

    Langlois
  • 2019
    Anton LaVey: Into the Devil's Den

    Anton LaVey: Into the Devil's Den (2019)

    Anton LaVey: Into the Devil's Den

    82019HD

    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 mean...

    Anton LaVey: Into the Devil's Den