Kenneth Anger

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Kenneth Anger (born February 3, 1927) is a Californian underground avant-garde film-maker and author. Early life Kenneth Anger was born in Santa Monica, California as Kenneth Wilbur Anglemyer and attended the Maurice Kossloff Dancing School with Shirley Temple and Judy Garland. He gained fame and notoriety from the publication of the French version of Hollywood Babylon in Paris in 1959, a tell-all book of the scandals of Hollywood's rich and famous. A pirated (and incomplete) version was first published in the U.S. in 1965. The official U.S. version was not published until 1974. He became fascinated with the supernatural and Aleister Crowley, as well as becoming an adherent of Crowley's religion of Thelema, sometime in his late teens. Many of his films reflect occult themes. Career His first cinematic appearance was apparently around age nine, but those early films are now believed to be lost. The first film that he directed to see distribution was Fireworks, filmed in Los Angeles in 1947, which gained the attention of Jean Cocteau, who then invited him to go to Paris. In 1949, Anger directed The Love That Whirls which, according to the 1972 book Experimental Cinema, contained (faked) nudity, and was thus confiscated by the film lab. While most of his films are short subject (ranging from 3.5 minutes to 30 minutes) mood pieces, in 1955 he made a documentary film of the ruins of Crowley's Thelema Abbey in Cefalù, Sicily, which is now considered a lost film. He developed

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demo tape 2012

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Interviewed by P. Adams Sitney on Wnyc's "Arts Forum" (1972)

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KENNETH ANGER W P ADAMS SITNEY, WNYC

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Lucifer Rising Sessions

Scorpio Rising

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FMSpaceman Essential Mix 2010 Part One

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FMSpaceman 2012 The First Six Months

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Puce Moment

Rabbit's Moon

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FMSpaceman Essential Mix 2010 Part Two

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FMSpaceman January 2011 3 Witchcraft Mini Mix

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