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Kenneth Anger, the artist and film-maker whose work offered a distinctively radical mix of paganism and homoeroticism, has died aged 96. Art gallery Sprüth Magers confirmed his death, saying: “Through his kaleidoscopic films, which combine sumptuous visuals, popular music soundtracks, and a focus on queer themes and narratives, Anger laid the groundwork for the avant garde art scenes of the later 20th century, as well as for the visual languages of contemporary queer and youth culture.”

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/may/24/kenneth-anger-underground-film-maker-and-hollywood-babylon-author-dies-aged-96

Anger’s films, which included Fireworks (1947), Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954), Scorpio Rising (1963) and Lucifer Rising (1972), made him a key figure in the counterculture over four decades, and later a hero to subsequent generations of film-makers grappling with similar themes. While he never found commercial success through his films, his book Hollywood Babylon – a compendium of often sleazy and largely unverifiable gossip about the film industry – became famous after first being published in 1959; it was followed by a sequel in 1984.

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From Philip Core's book "Camp: The Lie That Tells the Truth":

"Kenneth Anger's films - visual equivalents of Genet's novels - bring the secret but flaring nature of camp closer to the popular taste that championed it in the seventies . In films like Scorpio Rising his ' bikies ' and roses , skulls and musclemen , all studied obsessively to the sound of rock'n'roll golden oldies , revealed that the taste of straight teenagers in the fifties , though not generally camp, could become so when used to define homosexual images . Recently many of these images have become common objects of desire , and even the suburbs can look on a leather-clad Hell's Angel holding a bouquet of flowers without incomprehension .

"The dissolution of the original meaning of camp since the sixties is demonstrated by the fact that such a straight audience no longer laughs naïvely at such a stereotype ; they know what it is about and they accept it as part of an approved décor , popularised by modern camp gurus such as Anger. The position of guru was accorded Kenneth Anger as a result of his famous gossip book Hollywood Babylon - essential bathroom reading for countless Americans since its publication in 1975. Anger revealed his own obsessions with degradation , drug abuse and death in the compulsive retelling of star vices . Inside knowledge is power , and Anger has profited from his camp magic to remain a self - elected deity for the American underground ."

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 by: Lenona - Sat, 27 May 2023 18:01 UTC

And here's something that's bizarre - the year 1927 is the FOURTH birth year I've seen for him!

(The others were 1929, 1930, and 1932.)

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