Kenneth Anger Movies

Reenactments of passages from the controversial Kenneth Anger collection of tawdry gossip about the golden age of Hollywood.

The training practice of a soccer team – close-up of feet, body parts, muscles – entirely silent except for the noises of the ball being hit – a sort of minimalist, crisp, homoerotic version of Philippe Parreno's and Douglas Gordon's Zidane – A 21st Century Portrait.

A collage-style documentary of one of Kenneth Anger's visits to Pittsburgh in the early 1970s

A young man with a stylish crew cut watches a surveillance video monitor with great interest as a security guard makes out with a bodyguard (both with similar crew cut) among luxury cars in the underground parking of a posh building.

A magician encounters the void that separates the human mind from divine consciousness and in turn faces the mad god.

A short film by Kenneth Anger, only available to private collectors and never publicly released.

A look at the artwork of Aleister Crowley.

Filmed at the Alhambra in Spain in just one day, according to Marie Menken. Arabesque for Kenneth Anger concentrates on visual details found in Moorish architecture and in ancient Spanish tile. The date 1961 refers to the addition of Teiji Ito's soundtrack and its subsequent completion, but the...

Technicolor Skull is a real sensory experience, exploring the mental impact of a magick ritual in the context of an improvised performance. With Brian Butler at the special guitar and the electronics, and Kenneth Anger at the theremin and visuals, the collaboration of these two Californian artists...

A short film about the fetishistic interest in military uniforms.

Using found footage, we're introduced to the short life of Bunker Spreckels, Clark Gable's stepson and surfing legend.

This is a compilation of TV commercials, interviews and propaganda regarding the cigarette and tobacco industry.

Composed from footage found in the Imperial War museum, London, of Hitler Youth in full swing.

Anger discusses his Aleister Crowley-inspired theories of art: How he views his camera like a wand and how he casts his films, preferring to consider his actors, not human beings but as elemental spirits. In fact, he reveals that he goes so far as to use astrology when making these choices. This...

Kenneth Anger’s 42 second short movie on the subject of Death

- "The Spells of Kenneth Anger" was shot in Hollywood in July, 2003. Anger gives an overview of his life and we see clips of his many films. He touches on his run-in with Charles Manson, being influenced by Alistair Crowley, working with Marianne Faithful, and he shows us his favorite place in LA:...

Iconic American filmmaker Kenneth Anger has inspired generations of creative storytellers since the late 1940s. He is a unique visionary who drifts from pure poetry within his magical filmmaking to sardonic gossip in his bestselling "Hollywood Babylon" books. In-between these extremes we find a...

A short film featuring various vintage Mickey Mouse toys.

Early film by Kenneth Anger.

On LA’s iconic Sunset Boulevard and inside the glamorous rooms of Chateau Marmont, Floria Sigismondi shot Kenneth Anger for an additional special edition for System Magazine.