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The documentary
/ Anger Me
The documentary 'Anger Me', produced by Segnale Digitale and A
Few Steps Production, is the story of the
life, literary and motion-picture accomplishments of Kenneth Anger, a
pivotal figure in the history of experimental film. An innovator and a
pioneer, he literally blazed his own trail. Considered to be one of the
major personalities of the 1960's and 1970's underground art scene,
Kenneth defined himself as a "cinematographic magician" and his "cinema"
as a ritualistic form. Anger's films have taken audiences places where only great film poets can arrive.
In 1947 in Los Angeles, while his parents were away, a young Kenneth
took his family's film camera and shot a short, dramatic film entitled
"Fireworks", which is now considered one of the seminal works of
experimental film. Expressive, imagistic, sexually charged, and made
with the help of friends (and apparently without a script), “Fireworks”
brought to the screen an unconstrained vision and an almost unbelievable
candor.
Kenneth Anger also led in the field of visualization of homo-erotic
imagery. "Fireworks" was a film that went beyond maturity and sexual
conscience - an extraordinary event considering that it was made in
1947.
Kenneth did not cross over to commercial cinema. Throughout his career he
has been completely devoted to uncompromising expression. Since the
1960’s, Kenneth Anger's films have been the subject of many books, film
panels and film theory courses. Although he has never made a commercial
music video, he has even been called the "Godfather of MTV".
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