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.
Pregnant with her first child, and beginning a slide into an abyss of heroin use, [Anita] Pallenberg, then 26, had a preoccupation with black magic that led her to increasingly fantastical realms. ‘I had an interest in witchcraft,’ she recalled later, ‘in Buddhism, in the black magicians that my friend, Kenneth Anger, introduced me to. The world of the occult fascinated me.’
Kenneth Anger’s ghost haunts much of modern pop culture. Incongruous and sex-filled music videos, calendars with sweaty working class guys, a majority of queer cinema: a lover of the occult,… Read more »
Load up the Jimmy Page soundtrack and enjoy this slice of perfection. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWYr72xlQIQ&feature=share
A review of Lucifer Rising: British Intelligence and the Occult in the Second World War by Nicholas Booth… In 1941, after Rudolf Hess made his notorious flight to Scotland to… Read more »
Branding and product placement cast dark shadows over everyone eventually – even occultists such as Kenneth Anger who this weekend debuts a new gallery project, Lucifer Brothers Workshop, at the… Read more »
Magician’s apprentice Mark Pilkington on the celluloid sorcery and psychedelic Satanism of the 1960’s baddest boy. From the light of the projector emerges a darkness that is hard to shake…. Read more »
Jimmy Page on Lucifer Rising When did you first meet Kenneth Anger? “I’m trying to think. I can tell you when I first became aware of him. I was already… Read more »
There’s no reason to expect a man who chooses to go by the name of Anger to be an easy customer, especially when he has a reputation to match. And… Read more »
CARMICHAEL MAN DELVES INTO LED ZEPPELIN STAR’S PAST SACRAMENTO BEE, THE (CA), METRO FINAL, Sec. ENCORE, p EN6 24-05-1987 By David Barton Jimmy Page, the guitarist and producer who piloted… Read more »
Magician’s apprentice Mark Pilkington on the celluloid sorcery and psychedelic Satanism of the 1960’s baddest boy. From the light of the projector emerges a darkness that is hard to shake…. Read more »
Symphony for the devil As an exhibition celebrates his Invocation of My Demon Brother, the film director Kenneth Anger talks to Morgan Falconer about Mick Jagger, all-meat diets and seeing… Read more »