Cinema is Evil – Kenneth Anger night: BFI Southbank, NFT2, 5.50pm
This evening (in the Experimenta strand at BFI Southbank) is a collection of films celebrating underground filmmaker and Hollywood Babylon author Kenneth Anger titled 'Cinema Is Evil: Welcome to the World of Legendary, Queer Occult Filmmaker Kenneth Anger'.
BFI introduction:
Kenneth Anger was a pioneering, agitational, visionary voice in
independent, underground film, whose stunningly shot, magick-inspired
movies disrupted experimental film and influenced the darker elements of
counterculture and punk. A year to the day since Anger’s death, we pay
homage to this cinematic magus and his contention that, ‘the day cinema
was invented was a dark day for mankind’. Programme includes early
cinema title When the Devil Drives (1907), Arena special Hollywood
Babylon (1991), about Anger’s infamous book, and his psychodramas
Fireworks (1947) and Rabbit’s Moon (1972).
Here (and above) is an extract.
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