 | MOVIE #1,645 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 05.17.24 🎆ANGER D.F.🎆 Another one (alongside a few more Angers) that I watched at college on film: this was more twisted than I remember. So Today begins my Kenneth Anger Director Focus series, one of America's first openly gay filmmakers. As an artist of any medium, he’s also one of the most fascinating figures who — among his many accolades during his SEVEN-decade career in cinema — was a devotee of Aleister Crowley's religion and wrote a book filled with mostly lies about movie stars’ personal lives. Fireworks is actually his eighth film but I can’t find the first seven anywhere (prints almost certainly exist for most of these, and it’s something of a miracle that they’ve never trickled out online)... |
This flick is all I have to say about being seventeen, the United States Navy, American Christmas, and the Fourth of July. -ANGERAnger passed away in 2023, but It's pretty great that a weirdo like this lived till he was almost 100 years old. I’ll be watching all of his available work every Friday for the next several months.
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Fireworks is a 1947 homoerotic experimental short film by Kenneth Anger. Filmed in his parents' home in Beverly Hills, California, over a long weekend while they were away, the film stars Anger and explicitly explores themes of homosexuality and sadomasochism. It is the earliest of his works to survive. Fireworks is known for being the first gay narrative film in the United States. It was released on July 29, 1947.
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