A brief look at the wacky world of Kenneth Anger, one of cinema’s all-time unusual characters, who’s made acclaimed shorts and also penned the scandalous Hollywood Babylon. How Anger describes himself:
“Offering a description of himself for the program of a 1966 screening, Kenneth Anger stated his ‘lifework’ as being Magick and his ‘magical weapon’ the cinematograph. A follower of Aleister Crowley‘s teachings, Anger is a high level practitioner of occult magic who regards the projection of his films as ceremonies capable of invoking spiritual forces. Cinema, he claims, is an evil force. Its point is to exert control over people and events and his filmmaking is carried out with precisely that intention.” (Thanks to The Documentarian.)
