I missed not just a screening of Kenneth Anger films, but also a ~performance by him, and all because I didn’t look at the program for the film festival a little earlier. I had it well before the event but just didn’t get to checking it out until it was too late. The festival also had a zombie themed subset of films which I think proves that truly every conceivable form of zombie film exists, regardless of whether they’re in good taste or not, – from “Cockneys vs. zombies”, to “Osombie”, in which Bin Laden returns with an army of fundamentalist zombies
Here’s the blurb from the website about the Anger stuff:
“Technicolor Skull is a real sensory experience, about 20 minutes long, exploring the mental impact of a magic ritual in the context of an improvised performance. With Brian Butler at the special guitar and the electronics, and Kenneth Anger at the theremin and visuals, the collaboration of these two Californian artists gives birth to a “ceremony” that is enchanting and spectral as well. An initiation to occult rituals, and an event that will leave a mark on you.
The performance will be followed by The Occult program, a screening of Magick Cinema composed of several rare films by the two artists they will introduce themselves:
Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (Kenneth Anger, 1954, 38min)
Brush of Baphomet (Kenneth Anger, 2009, 7 min)
Night of Pan (Brian Butler, 2009, 7 min)
Union of Opposites (Brian Butler, 2012, 10 min)”
(from http://www.etrangefestival.com/index.php/2012/film/en/413)
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