video art

Video Art

Kenneth Anger

Anger was an underground film maker in america striking popularity in the early 1960's he had been making films since the late 1930's. His work focused around controvercial subjects such as homosexuality, Nazism, drug use and the popularity of evil figures.

Angers films were almost always over dubbed with sound tracks rather than the actual sounds of the filming excluding the occasional sound effects. 

Anger had a huge obsession of the occult and oftern included satanic imagery into his films.

often Anger would include small thing into his films (often obscured) as a clue as to what is to happen in the future such as in "Scorpio Rising" where a tall cloaked figure is seen in the background whilst Scorpio is preparing to leave his home symbolising that death is soon to come to Scorpio.

During Angers work in the 60's he was a regular user of the hallucinogenic drug LSD and made his films in a way to heighten his high whilst watching.

Invocation of My Demon Brother (1969) is an 11-minute film directed, edited, and photographed by Kenneth Anger. The music was composed by Mick Jagger playing a Moog synthesizer. It was filmed in San Francisco at the Straight Theater on Haight Street and the William Westerfeld House (the former "Russian Embassy" nightclub).
According to Kenneth Anger, the film was assembled from scraps of the first version of Lucifer Rising. It includes clips of the cast smoking out of a skull, and the publicly filmed Satanic funeral ceremony for a pet cat.

Dissonant Film

A dissonent film is usually a mix of twisted and chaotic imagery that can often be very controversial. They usually are made to shock the seances