Anger s seminal avantgarde films with visual qualities long obscured in faded film prints. Other highlights included a retrospective of the work of kenneth anger, who attended the fest and screened fireworks 1947, scorpio rising 1963 and kkk kustom kar kommandos 1965 at the congress hotel, 520 s. Kustom kar kommandos by kenneth anger leche by naomi uman light point by kenji onishi little flags by jem cohen. That which survives is an ode to a young man and his car. The artist order for this list is the same as on ubuweb, for the most part alphabetical except when an artist is part of a filmmaking team and does not have their own individual ubuweb page eg. For me, another possible starting point, overlooked by the documentary, would be kenneth angers 1965 art house short kustom kar kommandos. Upon its second release, the new york times said of it, if a book such as this can be said to have charm, it lies in the. The film opens with a camera watching 1920sstyle flapper gowns being taken off a dress rack.
Scorpio rising film wikimili, the free encyclopedia. Personal reflections on kustom kar kommandos, digging into bill landiss book on kenneth anger and how the use of music in angers films inspired martin scorsese. The 3minute short features panning shots of a young man sandy trent buffing a customized hot rod in front of an amorphous pink background, to the tune of dream lover by the paris sisters. I love the avantgarde cinema, so i decided to create a new list dedicated to it.
Kalandia kustom kar kommandos dream lover, 2014, 4 min zielonys film reprises kenneth angers kustom kar kommandos 1965 in a very different setting. Kustom kar in kingsport kustom kar 2303 fort henry dr. Kool kustom kar show open until 7 tonight 9 4 on sundaymillions of dollars in kool iron. A follower of aleister crowleys teachings, anger is a high level practitioner. Volume 2 shows the extent to which the directors imagination would expand. Tobias zielony is known for his photographic depiction of juvenile minorities in suburban areas a subject he. Kustom kar kommandos is about the closest youll come to making love to a hot rod. Kustom kar kommandos is another short by kenneth anger.
Anger made the episode presently shown as kustom kar kommandos to raise funds to finish the film, but was unable to. Kustom kar kommandos is a successful fragment of another larger film anger wanted to make about youth culture. Scorpio rising is a 1963 american experimental short film directed by kenneth anger and starring bruce byron who anger asserts was halfcrazy as scorpio. Kustom kar kommandos is not surprisingly something to drag about, at least, automotively speaking, or the funfilled, teensvilletake on typical, midsixties pompadoured, powderpuffed, chromedout hot rodders, ford bargained for. This would have been my dream car when i was in high school. Although virtually completed in 1972, the film was only widely distributed in 1980, after bobby beausoleil delivered the finished soundtrack master. Stanya kahn is listed alongside harry dodge in the ds rather than. Seriously campaigned for the role of tony in west side story 1961.
Imagery and the choice of camera angles imply an intense eroticism. With its first volume acting like an instructional manual on the birth of american avantgarde filmmaking the films of kenneth anger. Roger, glad to hear your still alive, cannt get away from them kustom can we. There is no dialog, just a slowly moving camera with deliberately intense colors. Egyptian gods summons the angel lucifer in order to usher in a new occult age. Rabbits moon extended version, eaux dartifice, inauguration of the pleasure dome, scorpio rising, kustom kar kommandos, invocation of my demon brother, and lucifer rising.
Kustom kar kommandos could be the best thing you see all day. I think the kustom kar kommandos is the extreme like high art version of something that i was trying to sort of put into the list in a general way which sort of includes everything from resin fetish art to low rider culture. Video times kustom kar kommandos, 1965, 3 minutes, color. In mid1966, anger began renting a flat on the ground floor of the westerfeld house, referred to by locals as the russian embassy, a. How has that influenced your architectural aesthetic. Kustom kar kommandos 1970 kustom kar kommandos 1970. Its like a love song or poem all about the beauty and.
I would have been riding my 10 speed bike to my minimum wage job when this guy would have sped by me with a couple of beautiful girls in the bird. The dresses are removed and danced off the rack to music. Liberation through photography the exhibition sparks conversations surrounding our understanding of masculinity. Hollywood babylon is a book by avantgarde filmmaker kenneth anger which purportedly details the sordid scandals of famous hollywood denizens from the 1900s to the 1950s.
With kenneth anger, bobby beausoleil, donald cammell, haydn couts. Department of film and video spring program schedule, 0301197405311974. The 50 greatest experimental films list challenges. Lecture by independent filmmaker kenneth anger, 4161973.
The show explores how masculinity is experienced, performed, coded and socially constructed as expressed and documented through photography and film from the 1960s to the present day. Lucifer rising is a short film by director kenneth anger. Kenneth anger met a guy with a beautiful customdetailed hot rod and got him to agree to having the car and himself filmed. Find kustom kar in kingsport with address, phone number from yahoo us local. Release dates 2 also known as aka 2 release dates finland 6 february 1970 tv premiere france 7 april 1973. Born in 1973 in wuppertal, germany, tobias zielony studied documentary photography at the university of wales, newport, before he continued with artistic photography at the academy of fine arts leipzig under timm rautert in 2001. As always, he sees celluloid as a medium, as important to expression as paints, clay, canvases and ones hands. There are numerous films that appear on multiple ubuweb pages. Authorized alpine, jl audio, pioneer and other top level car audio. If you are looking for something interesting to do on a budget, you can pick and choose from 63 free events in new york city nyc.
February 3, 1927, santa monica, california filmography bibliography articles in senses web resources offering a description of himself for the program of a 1966 screening, kenneth anger stated his lifework as being magick and his magical weapon the cinematograph. Its hemingway meets kustom kar kommandos as alain guiraudie sets latent homosexual lust against greasy metallic parts. Puce moment is a short 6minute film by kenneth anger. This film is not currently playing on mubi but 30 other great films are. Of course, i loved the freedom and convenience of driving but unlike other guys, i never had the desire to put thousands of dollars into a car that was probably worth less than my cd collection at the time. Kustom kar kommandos coming of age, i never could understand the infatuation other guys had for swooning over automobiles. A man in tight jeans buffs his car to the strains of dream lover.
Born in 1973 in wuppertal, germany, tobias zielony studied documentary. Filmed in 1949, puce moment resulted from the unfinished short film puce women. Also known as aka original title kustom kar kommandos. Kustom kar kommandos 1965 invocation of my demon brother 1969. Its mostly an adoring look at a beloved hot rod, the all chrome ruby blush dream buggy thats every bit as sexually charged as the fabrics in angers earlier puce moment. Angers short, a precursor of the music video genre the paris sisters dream lover 1964 plays in the.
As one learns towards the zany conclusion of emperor tomato ketchup, if you have a beard, you can have an empire, even if youre a 7yearold sadist with a fake beard. However, the ford foundations grant quickly ran out, and only one 3minute episode was ever produced. It opens with the sounds of a revving engine and features a man lovingly buffing a. As is standard procedure for a nick zedd flick, the film wastes no time flashing swastikas for no apparent reason, albeit this time the glorious. Discussion in the hokey ass message board started by fuzz991, oct 9, 2009. Kustom kar kommandos could be the best thing you see all. Themes central to the film include the occult, biker subculture, homosexuality, catholicism, and nazism. Kenneth anger fireworks, puce moment, rabbits moon, eaux d. A miracle of modernday restoration techniques, these two discs present mr. A season outside, amar kanwar sin, susanna helke and virpi suutari soft fiction, chick strand. My first exposure to an avant garde film or film maker was a season of kenneth anger films augmented with the work of other film makers including as i recall jean genets. Kenneth anger great director profile senses of cinema. Ironically, he would wind up winning his only golden globe award in 1962 for most promising newcomer in a virtual tie with with richard beymer, who got the role as tony, and.
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