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Jaw dropping: this year’s edition of the Flaherty Seminar delved into the simultaneously exhilarating and elegiac experience of contemplating the past and future of queer experimental film

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KENNETH ANGER was an audacious filmmaker, a self-proclaimed magus, a never-closeted queer, a shameless scandalmonger, a sometime Satanist, a difficult person, and, as P. Adams Sitney put it, the “conscious artificer of his own myth.” He was also the King of Pop—at least that’s what I thought on first seeing Scorpio Rising (1963) in the mid-1960s, age sixteen, at New York’s Museum of Modern Art.There were other movies on that program; I remember being impressed by Gregory Markopoulos�...

Lukas Brasiskis pens an obituary for Kenneth Anger and his work.

In tribute to the pioneering experimental filmmaker, who has died aged 96, we republish this 2009 feature, in which Tony Rayns unpicks the hidden themes and influences that made his work so groundbreaking.

Kenneth Anger, a child of Hollywood who became one of the most important experimental filmmakers of his generation and whose influence can still be fe

Kenneth Anger, the filmmaker whose compositions Fireworks and Scorpio Rising made him a pioneer of underground cinema, has died. He was 96.

David McKenna , March 16th, 2021 09:08 David McKenna celebrates ten years of the Rockfort column and tackles folk, rap, the dark arts - and classic French Europop This column marks the ten-year anniversary of Rockfort on The Quietus, a realisation which is a source of delight and no little consternation (for me, but perhaps for others too). It’s the sort of moment that leads to pained reflections on where the time has gone, and what I’ve achieved. Then I remember that over the same period D...

Surrealist cinema came to life in the 1920s in the birth-country of many milestones in cinematic history: France. The surrealist movement is characterized by heavy use of symbolism, often in the form of absurd imagery. A surrealist film doesn’t have to be absurd or shocking though, it can just as well be an opposition to the standardized dramatic structure. In this list we will see a fair share of shock and absurdity, but there will be some films that are considered surreal thanks to their st...