Kenneth Anger Movies

Rabbit's Moon is an avant-garde short film by American filmmaker Kenneth Anger, and released in two different versions. It was filmed in 1950, but not completed (nor released) until 1971. This, the second version, was re-released in 1979, sped up and with a different soundtrack.

Made when Anger was only 14 years old, Tinsel Tree is a short that demonstrated his early disdain for the Christmas season. Anger shows the Christmas tree as it is decorated in a series of close-ups, then the post-Christmas tree is shown burning in a garbage can colored in a burst of hand-painted...

Elio Gelmini interviews Avantgarde filmmaker Kenneth Anger. With archive footage of Angers films, he portrays the filmmaker from his childhood until present day.

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.

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.

Early film by Kenneth Anger.

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

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

A look at the artwork of Aleister Crowley.

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...

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

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...

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

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

Anais Nin is discussed by her friends, her biographer, her literary colleagues and her second husband and literary executor, Rupert Pole.

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.

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.