Kenneth Anger
Let Kenneth Anger and Brian Butler Attack Your Senses in LA on Sunday
If you're really lucky, lucifer might be there too.
This Jacking Chicago Soundtrack To Kenneth Anger's 'Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome' Is Freaky AF
The latest album by I.B.M. (Insane Black Man) gives new neurosis to the experimental filmmaker's sex and satan cinema.
We Spoke to Charles Manson’s Guitarist About Making Art While Serving Time for Murder
Bobby Beausoleil was an associate of Charles Manson who murdered Gary Hinman, a crime for which he was sentenced to death. But in the years since, he's become a prolific artist.
The Blurring of Fact and Imagination in 'Sway'
Sway, by Zachary Lazar, is a swirling and episodic novel that incorporates the Rolling Stones circa 1969, the avant-garde filmmaker Kenneth Anger, and Manson Family associate Bobby Beausoleil in a dizzying but effective exploration of the rise...
Remembering Curtis Harrington and His Films
I first learned of Curtis's work through my godfather, Kenneth Anger. His trademark was surreal incongruity. He effortlessly mixed horror, black humor, and grotesque glamor in classics like What's the Matter with Helen?, Whoever Slew Auntie...
The Beatles Are Dead, Fassbinder Is Alive
My favorite music videos were always the ones that looked like the bands had been locked in a house somewhere, forced to take part in a nightmarish Kenneth Anger or David Lynch movie. James Pate’s novel The Fassbinder Diaries feels like that...
The Sordid Secrets of Babylon
Filmmaker Kenneth Anger—the guy who literally wrote the book on Hollywood debauchery—talks with us about the strange and dark realms of celebrity.
Kenneth Anger
Did I annoy the 85-year-old filmmaker and writer enough for him to cast a Thelemic curse on me?
Tonight in Seattle: Magick in Cinema with Brian Butler
Tonight Brian Butler will be screening a selection of films that, as Aleister Crowley put it, explore the “science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with the will.”