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Kenneth Anger

Kenneth Anger (born Kenneth Wilbur Anglemyer February 3, 1927) is an American underground experimental filmmaker, actor and author. Working exclusively in short films, he has produced almost forty works since 1937, nine of which have been grouped together as the "Magick Lantern Cycle". His films variously merge surrealism with homoeroticism and the occult, and have been described as containing "elements of erotica, documentary, psychodrama, and spectacle". Anger himself has been described as "one of America's first openly gay filmmakers, and certainly the first whose work addressed homosexuality in an undisguised, self-implicating manner", and his "role in rendering gay culture visible within American cinema, commercial or otherwise, is impossible to overestimate", with several being released prior to the legalization of homosexuality in the United States. He has also focused upon occult themes in many of his films, being fascinated by the English poet and mystic Aleister Crowley, and is an adherent of Thelema, the religion Crowley founded.

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I'm a Thelemite. I believe in Thelema, which is Crowley's so-called religion. There are some practit ...

Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, g ...

Lucifer is the patron saint of the visual arts. Color, form-all these are the work of Lucifer.

I hate to say that, but the past was much more fascinating. I don't particularly care for any of the ...

I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may b ...

Although, of course, my definition of evil is not everybody else's. Evil is being involved in the gl ...

I've never made a film using dialogue or speech.

Making a movie is casting a spell.

I've always considered movies evil; the day that cinema was invented was a black day for mankind.

This flick is all I have to say about being 17, the United States Navy, Christmas and the Fourth of ...

I've made several films that haven't been shown.

A lavish colored evocation of Hollywood now gone, as shown through an afternoon in the milieu of the ...

A film about the love generation - the birthday party of the Aquarian Age showing actual ceremonies ...