KENNETH ANGER- SCORPIO RISING - Iconography and Identity in Hollywood Babylon - AQUARIUM DRUNKARD
OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT Sprüth/ Magers Gallery :
With deep sadness, Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers, along with the entire gallery team, mourn the passing of the visionary filmmaker, artist, and author Kenneth Anger (1927–2023).
Portrait of Anger in his youth in the 1950s by Edmund Teske
“Well, it would be a crowded world if we didn’t have death to re-arrange the scenery.”
Kenneth Anger interviewed by Purple Magazine in 2018
KENNETH ANGER DEATH announced yesterday [but died on the 11/5/2023] you might have expected there to be issues over his passing from this earthly realm to who knows where albeit these seem to have been legal ones rather than explosions of fireworks or clouds of fire and brimstone! The author of two of my favourite treasured books Hollywood Babylon I & II and Thelemite*, author, film maker and iconoclast. His Satanic Majesty has left the temple! Stark staring bonkers some might say but is acknowledged as a filmic influence on modern day pop videos to Martin Scorsese, David Lynch and fellow enfant terrible John Waters. Despite having the name of Lucifer tattooed upon his chest it is also claimed Anger did not consider himself to be a Satanist but a pagan, suffice to say he was a committed follower of the occult and all that goes with that belief system of whatever flavour. Anger died at a care facility in Yucca Valley, California, on May 11, 2023, at the age of 96. The announcement of his death was delayed until May 24 while his estate was being settled
This from American Primitives:
Funny how shocking it feels to type the words “His Satanic Majesty Kenneth Anger (3 February 1927 – 24 May 2023) has died”. (Sprueth Magers Gallery announced his death earlier today via Twitter). The pioneering experimental underground filmmaker, author and occultist was, after all, 96 years old! I always assumed whatever pact Anger made with the devil invested him with immortality (or that he’d at least reach 100). Repeatedly seeing Anger’s homoerotic masterpieces like Scorpio Rising (1964) and Kustom Kar Kommandos (1965) at an impressionable age (often at the much-missed Scala Cinema in London) made a profound impact on me, and his two salacious wildly irresponsible volumes of Hollywood Babylon are like sacred religious texts! What a total original Kenneth Anger was. His art will live forever.
R.I.P. THe Magus of American Cinema - KENNETH ANGER Obituary | DANGEROUS MINDS
FIREWORKS by KENNETH ANGER
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