Kenneth Anger - Filmography

Filmography

Date	Title	Length	Notes
1937	Ferdinand the Bull		Lost film
1941	Who Has Been Rocking My Dreamboat	07 mins.	A silent black-and-white film in which Anger filmed twelve other children in Santa Monica, California, interspersed with images of war and destruction, which ends when a fog fills their playground and they all fall down, apparently dead.
1941–1942	Tinsel Tree	03 mins.	A silent black-and-white film that Anger personally hand tinted with gold-scarlet over the flames. It featured a Christmas tree being dressed in decorations, before being shown stripped and bare and set on fire.
1942	Prisoner of Mars	11 mins.	A silent black-and-white film that mixes futuristic science fiction with the ancient Greek myth of the Minotaur. The plot revolves around a character, The Boy Elect from Earth, played by Anger himself, who is sent in a rocket to Mars where he finds himself in a labyrinth filled with the bones of other adolescents sent there in the past.
1943	NestThe Nest	20 mins.	A silent black-and-white film in which a brother (played by Bob Jones) and sister (Jo Whittaker) are examining mirrors when a third figure (Dare Harris), causes them to act violently against one another, before a magical rite takes place in which the sister's binding spell is destroyed by the brother.
1944	Demigods (Escape Episode)	35 mins.	A silent black-and-white film based upon the ancient Greek myth of Andromeda, in which a girl (Marilyn Granas) is imprisoned within a seaside crumbling Neo-Gothic church guarded by a religious fanatic (Nora Watson), till she is saved by a boy representing Perseus (Bob Jones).
1945	Drastic Demise	05 mins.	A silent black-and-white work filmed by Anger in Hollywood on V-J Day. Consisting of footage of a celebratory crowd, it ends with an image of a nuclear mushroom cloud.
1946	Escape Episode	27 mins.	A shortened version of Demigods (Escape Episode), it features Scriabin's The Poem of Ecstasy alongside the sounds of birds, wind and surf.
1947	Fireworks	15 mins.	Filmed in black and white, it is a homoerotic work seen through the eyes of the protagonist, played by Anger himself.
1949	Puce Moment	06 mins.	Filmed in color, starring Yvonne Marquis as a celebrity in her home, and featuring music by Jonathan Halper, Puce Moment lasted only one scene and portrays her examining her dresses and perfume.
1949	Love That WhirlsThe Love That Whirls	unknown	Influenced by James Frazer's anthropological text The Golden Bough, it was set in the Aztec civilisation, and featured a youth who was chosen to be king for a year before being ritually sacrificed. The film was subsequently destroyed at the Eastman-Kodac developing plant, who objected to its theme and nudity.
1950	Rabbit's Moon	16 mins (1972) 7 mins (1979)	Filmed in 35mm, it is set in a small wooded glade where a clown stares up at the moon, in which a rabbit lives.
1951–1952	Les Chants de Maldoror	unknown	Based upon the 1868 novel by Isidore Ducasse, Le Comte de Lautreamont, only test shots were produced, in which he employed members of the Marquis de Cuevas ballet.
1953	Eaux d'Artifice	12 mins.	A short, monochromatic film appearing in dark blue, with only one moment of color – a woman opens a fan that glows in bright green. The woman appears in a gown stretching from neck to toe, wearing dark glasses and a feathered headdress. Water flows throughout, from fountains, and suggestively through the mouths and over the faces of statuary. Fluids sensually pulse and flow, reminiscent of sexual climax. In the end the woman steps from a door seemingly from the side of a fountain, and is herself transformed into water. The film is set to the music of Vivaldi's Winter Movement from the Four Seasons.
1953	Le Jeune Homme et la Mort	unknown	Based upon the ballet by Jean Cocteau, this silent black-and-white film starred Jean Babilee as a young man and Nathalie Philipart as Death. It was a 16mm pilot designed to be used to raise funds to produce a 35mm Technicolor version, but the funding for this never materialized.
1954	Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome	38 mins.
1955	Thelema Abbey	10 mins.	A short, black-and-white documentary on Aleister Crowley's Abbey of Thelema in Sicily, which examined many of the exotic frescoes, a study in which Anger was assisted by sexologist Alfred Kinsey.
1961	L'Histoire d'O	20 mins.	Based upon Pauline Réage's 1954 novel, L'Histoire d'O, it revolved around the sado-masochistic sexual activities of a heterosexual couple. Anger would later relate that the money provided for the film had been a part of the ransom paid to the kidnappers of Eric Peugeot, heir to the Peugeot car company fortune.
1963	Scorpio Rising	29 mins.
1965	Kustom Kar Kommandos	03 mins.	In color, set to the tones of "Dream Lover" by The Paris Sisters, several handsome young men stand admiringly over the chassis of a souped-up hot rod. A young man slowly works the chamois over the chrome and paint of the machine. The young man now smartly dressed in matching pastel blue gets behind the wheel and begins to work the controls. Finally the engine revs and the car rolls away.
1969	Invocation of My Demon Brother	12 mins.	In color, with an electronic score by Rolling Stones lead singer Mick Jagger. The film features an array of occult symbols and activities, including a Satanic funeral for a cat. Demon Brother also includes Anton LaVey as a priest, newsreel footage of the Vietnam War, and clips of The Rolling Stones' July 1969 free concert in London's Hyde Park, their first public appearance after the death of Brian Jones and their first performance with Mick Taylor. Also shown in the concert footage are Jagger's then-girlfriend and pop singer Marianne Faithfull and Keith Richards' wife, actress Anita Pallenberg. Demon Brother is mostly assembled from footage for Anger's original version of Lucifer Rising, including scenes of future Manson Family associate Bobby Beausoleil in the titular role.
1970–1980	Lucifer Rising	29 mins.
1976	Senators in Bondage		Announced, but never produced
1977	Matelots en Menottes		Announced, but never produced
1979	Denunciation of Stan Brakhage	07 mins.	Announced, but never produced
2000	Don't Smoke That Cigarette!
2002	Man We Want to HangThe Man We Want to Hang	12 mins.
2004	Anger Sees Red	04 mins.	Comprises footage of a muscled man, who identifies himself only as "Red", walking through a park and sunbathing, at which he is seen by Anger himself, who is also in the park, before subsequently returning home.
2004	Patriotic Penis
2005	Mouse Heaven	11 mins.	A montage of Mickey Mouse memorabilia from the 1920s and 1930s, accompanied by contemporary jazz music
2007	Elliott's Suicide	15 mins.
2007	I'll Be Watching You	05 mins.
2007	My Surfing Lucifer	04 mins.	Color with no sound; "A Tribute to my Surfing Pal Adolph Bunker Spreckels III" "BUNKY". A young man with a white mercedes, the rolling waves breaking on the beach, the surfers riding them in. The film ends with a closeup of the skinned elbow of the surfer, presumably abraded during a wipeout.
2008	Death	0042 secs.
2008	Foreplay	07 mins.
2008	Ich Will!	35 mins.
2008	Uniform Attraction	21 mins.
2010	Missoni	02 mins. 32 secs.