Kenneth Anger

Kenneth Anger is an American underground film-maker, born in 1927. He began making films at age nine, but never had any formal training. The only schooling he had, apparently, was attending a dance school with Shirley Temple. He was close friends with Alfred Kinsey, helped him build his film archive and appeared in some of his research films.

Anger had an obsession with the occult which is very apparent in his films. Scorpio Rising (1963) is the film that initially drew me to Anger. I was floored; it included the fusion of three things I am endlessly interested in - religion, sexuality, and 50s/60s pop music. For a film about a Nazi bike gang, homoeroticism, drug use and Satanic rituals, it was incredibly subversive for its time.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4704748884284449320 (Scorpio Rising)

http://www.ratso.net/anger.html (Interview)

http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/03/anger.html (Website)

There is no gallery representing Anger, but surprisingly, most of his films can be found on Google video and YouTube.