Kenneth Anger in The Wire 247.Photo: Richard Henderson
The end of the long, legendary life of Kenneth Anger (1927-2023) last month brings a somber, if long foreseen resolution to the peculiar state of tension in which the filmmaker always seemed to exist with his public.Few in the pantheon of American cinema's mid-century underground made work of more consequence to popular culture than Anger, who rode the full pendulum-swing of the sixties counterculture, and fused the romantic decadence of the European avant-garde and the anarchic exuberance of post-war American youth culture into a unique and confrontational poetic signature.
The end of the long, legendary life of Kenneth Anger (1927-2023) last month brings a somber, if long foreseen resolution to the peculiar state of tension in which the filmmaker always seemed to exist with his public.Few in the pantheon of American cinema's mid-century underground made work of more consequence to popular culture than Anger, who rode the full pendulum-swing of the sixties counterculture, and fused the romantic decadence of the European avant-garde and the anarchic exuberance of post-war American youth culture into a unique and confrontational poetic signature.
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