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Kenneth Anger, Counterculture Filmmaker and Author, Passes Away at 96.

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Source: The Guardian
Kenneth Anger, Counterculture Filmmaker and Author, Passes Away at 96.
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Kenneth Anger was an experimental filmmaker known for his homoerotic and surreal works. His landmark short film, Fireworks, won an obscenity case and gained a cult following. Anger's cousin starred in his 1949 short Puce Moment, featuring dresses apparently moving by themselves. He became friendly with sexologist Alfred Kinsey and made a film about the derelict Abbey of Thelema. Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome depicted deities and legends assembling in a fantastical space, fully embracing Crowley's ideas.

Topics:entertainmentarts-and-culture#aleister-crowley#arts-and-culture#experimental-film#kenneth-anger#sexuality#surrealism
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