Kenneth Anger Movies

Documentary portrait of Henri Langlois, co-founder of the Cinémathèque Française.

In 1960, Brion Gysin invented the Dream Machine, a hypnotic light device with the power to induce hallucinations, drugless highs, and revolutionize...

"Secrets of a Hollywood Star" is another documentary made after "Calling Hedy Lamarr" in 2006. It features interviews with Hedy's friends in both...

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

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

Documentary profile of legendary dance choreographer Busby Berkeley.

This faux cautionary documentary features film clips and often humorous softcore reenactments of several notorious celebrity sex scandals from the...

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

A Japanese fairy tale meets commedia dell'Arte. All in white, the naïf Pierrot lies in a wood. Doo-wop music plays as he rises, stares about,...

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

A short film about the fetishistic interest in military uniforms.

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...

A short film featuring various vintage Mickey Mouse toys.

Early film by Kenneth Anger.

A silent black-and-white film in which a brother (played by Bob Jones) and sister (Jo Whittaker) are examining mirrors when a third figure (Dare...

The training practice of a soccer team – close-up of feet, body parts, muscles – entirely silent except for the noises of the ball being...

A look at avant-garde filmmaker Marie Menken.

In 1989, I met Anton LaVey for the first time. At this time in his life, LaVey was seeing only a select few people. For this film, I've met and...

A man in tight jeans buffs his car to the strains of The Paris Sisters' "Dream Lover".

"The Dead became my first work in which things that might very easily be taken as symbols were so photographed as to destroy all their symbolic...