#NowPlaying ❝I knew nothing about homosexuality, sadomasochism, devil worship. Those things didn’t really cross my mind a great deal growing up. And here was an evening of all of that, introduced by this person named #TomLuddy with #KennethAnger. And I sat there absolutely enthralled by these movies and walked out thinking, wow, this is the University of California at Berkeley. This is what it’s all about.❞ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-kitchen-sisters-present/id814067846?i=1000696623697

PUCE MOMENT is a short film by #KennethAnger that has been a guidepost throughout my life.
I am always in a constant state of living out some aspect of this reality.

“From the bottom of my heart
I pity all of you
Chained to the world
And who don’t know what I do”

https://youtube.com/watch?v=6GGLt0xrNeU&si=DJnh-tR1JxD64EO9

Yes, I am The Hermit
My mind is not the same
Yes, I am The Hermit
and Ecstasy’s my game

#KennethAnger — PUCE MOMENT #JonathanHalper
https://youtube.com/watch?v=6GGLt0xrNeU&si=JIoYeNJx8PP9zaMl

As a teen I remember being utterly fascinated by #KennethAnger ‘s #Hollywood #Babylon - well before I’d seen any of his films. Someone stole all the books, though & I can remember almost nothing about them. #magick #crowley #film

I bet Kenneth Anger had a pretty understandably strained, but very astute sense of irony pertaining to the fact that at the time his Underground films were being blasted by moralistic a-holes for their overtly homo-erotic content, straight normies were lining-up around the block to see bearded, sweaty, muscled Olympian gladiators penetratng each other with swords without batting an eye ... oh, heteronormitivity ...
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#TCMParty
#HerculesSamsonAndUlysses
#KennethAnger

Good mail today:
-Magick Lantern Cycle- The films of Kenneth Anger
-In Heaven Everything is Fine- Fiction Inspired by David Lynch

"Making a movie is casting a spell ..."
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Bidding a sad and fond farewell to an underground, arthouse, and queer cinema icon. He's enraging the puritanical normies in Heaven now ...
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R.I.P. Kenneth Anger (1927 - 2023)
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#RestInPeace #KennethAnger #UndergroundFilm #QueerCinema #ArthouseFilm #Art #NewArt #Filmmakers #ArtWIP #ExperimentalFilm #LuciferRising

Experimental filmmaker Kenneth Anger died on May 11 at age 96. Here's a look at his long career and how he influenced filmmakers and artists of multiple generations.

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/kenneth-anger-filmmaker-dead-scorpio-rising-1234669507/

#KennethAnger has passed over the veil to #HollywoodBabylon

Here's my portrait of him for the book in progress 'The Mirror Obsidian: Visionaries, Cultists, Mystics, Occultists'

RIP Kenneth Anger, when those DVDs finally came out we used to run clips from them during shows. Just an amazing body of work, such a fantastic eye and so much striking imagery #kennethanger #sanfrancisco

Kenneth Anger has died. May he rest in peace. He was one of the more strange figures associated with #Hollywood and #filmmaking. Influential and infamous, he was a chronicler of the seedier side of Hollywood. He also became famous for avant-garde films that drew upon #homoeroticism, the #occult, and #surrealism.

#KennethAnger
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/24/1074040623/kenneth-anger-dies-filmmaker-hollywood-babylon

RIP Kenneth Anger

#KennethAnger #UndergroundCinema #Thelema

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/may/24/kenneth-anger-underground-film-maker-and-hollywood-babylon-author-dies-aged-96

RIP to legendary filmmaker and writer #KennethAnger

https://variety.com/2023/film/news/kenneth-anger-dies-fireworks-1235623957/

Marjorie Cameron in Kenneth Anger's The Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, 1954

Underground film maker and Occultist Kenneth Anger at the Cinematheque, Paris, 1950

Still from Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, a short film by Kenneth Anger from 1954. The film takes the name "Pleasure Dome" from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's atmospheric poem "Kubla Khan". It reflects Anger's deep interest in Thelema, the philosophy of Aleister Crowley.

A film still from Kenneth Anger's Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, 1954

Underground film maker and Occultist Kenneth Anger
at the Cinematheque, Paris, 1950