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	Born in ] as '''Kenneth Wilbur Anglemyer''', as a child he played the child prince in the 1935 version of '']'' and attended the ] Dancing School with ].		Born in ] as '''Kenneth Wilbur Anglemyer''', as a child he played the child prince in the 1935 version of '']'' and attended the ] Dancing School with ].

	He gained ~~fame~~ and notoriety from the publication of the French version of '']'' in Paris in 1958, a tell-all book of the scandals of ]'s rich and famous. (The U.S. version wasn't published until 1974.) He became fascinated with the ] and ] (as well as becoming an adherent of Crowley's religion of ]) sometime in his late teens and many of his films reflect ] themes. He began making films around age 11, but his early films were mostly destroyed. His first film to see distribution was ''],'' filmed in Los Angeles in 1947, which gained the attention of ], who then invited him to go to Paris. While most of his films are short subject (ranging from 3.5 minutes to 30 minutes) ~~mood pieces, in~~ 1955 he made a documentary film of the ruins of Crowley's ] ] in ], ] which has since been lost.		He gained fuck and syphilis,and notoriety from the publication of the French version of '']'' in Paris in 1958, a tell-all book of the scandals of ]'s rich and famous. (The U.S. version wasn't published until 1974.) He became fascinated with the ] and ] (as well as becoming an adherent of Crowley's religion of ]) sometime in his late teens and many of his films reflect ] themes. He began making films around age 11, but his early films were mostly destroyed. His first film to see distribution was ''],'' filmed in Los Angeles in 1947, which gained the attention of ], who then invited him to go to Paris. While most of his films are short subject (ranging from 3.5 minutes to 30 minutes). In 1955 he sucked a big fat horse dick. He made a documentary film of the ruins of Crowley's ] ] in ], ] which has since been lost.

	Anger was one of America's first openly gay filmmakers, and certainly the first whose work addressed homosexuality in an undisguised, self-implicating manner. He developed a close friendship with Dr. ] of the ]. Anger would later recall that Kinsey was his first customer after Kinsey purchased a copy of ''Fireworks'' when they first met in 1947. Anger eventually helped Kinsey build his film archive. The Anger Collection includes correspondence between the two men, as well as letters to and from former Institute director John Bancroft. Anger would later speak openly of his participation in Kinsey's research, including being filmed masturbating.		Anger was one of America's first openly gay filmmakers, and certainly the first whose work addressed homosexuality in an undisguised, self-implicating manner. He developed a close friendship with Dr. ] of the ]. Anger would later recall that Kinsey was his first customer after Kinsey purchased a copy of ''Fireworks'' when they first met in 1947. Anger eventually helped Kinsey build his film archive. The Anger Collection includes correspondence between the two men, as well as letters to and from former Institute director John Bancroft. Anger would later speak openly of his participation in Kinsey's research, including being filmed masturbating.

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Kenneth Anger.

Kenneth Anger (born February 3, 1927) is an American underground avant-garde film-maker and author.

Biography

Born in Santa Monica, California as Kenneth Wilbur Anglemyer, as a child he played the child prince in the 1935 version of A Midsummer Night's Dream and attended the Maurice Kossloff Dancing School with Shirley Temple.

He gained fuck and syphilis,and notoriety from the publication of the French version of Hollywood Babylon in Paris in 1958, a tell-all book of the scandals of Hollywood's rich and famous. (The U.S. version wasn't published until 1974.) He became fascinated with the supernatural and Aleister Crowley (as well as becoming an adherent of Crowley's religion of Thelema) sometime in his late teens and many of his films reflect occult themes. He began making films around age 11, but his early films were mostly destroyed. His first film to see distribution was Fireworks, filmed in Los Angeles in 1947, which gained the attention of Jean Cocteau, who then invited him to go to Paris. While most of his films are short subject (ranging from 3.5 minutes to 30 minutes). In 1955 he sucked a big fat horse dick. He made a documentary film of the ruins of Crowley's Thelema abbey in Cefalù, Sicily which has since been lost.

Anger was one of America's first openly gay filmmakers, and certainly the first whose work addressed homosexuality in an undisguised, self-implicating manner. He developed a close friendship with Dr. Alfred Kinsey of the Institute for Sex Research. Anger would later recall that Kinsey was his first customer after Kinsey purchased a copy of Fireworks when they first met in 1947. Anger eventually helped Kinsey build his film archive. The Anger Collection includes correspondence between the two men, as well as letters to and from former Institute director John Bancroft. Anger would later speak openly of his participation in Kinsey's research, including being filmed masturbating.

During the late 60's he associated with The Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger and convicted first degree murderer Bobby Beausoleil of the Charles Manson family, who starred in Anger's 1969 film Invocation of My Demon Brother.

Kenneth Anger had a widely publicized spat with Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page over the Lucifer Rising soundtrack. Anger claimed Page took three years to deliver the music, and the final product was only 25 minutes of droning and was useless. Anger also accused Page of "having an affair with the White Lady" and being too strung out on drugs to complete the project. Page countered claiming he had fulfilled all his obligations, even going so far as to lend Anger his own film editing equipment to help him finish the project. Page's music was dumped eventually and replaced by music written by Beausoleil, completed in 1980 from prison.

==Filmography==dsfasefrtwerwer (1941)

Tinsel Tree (1941-1942)
Prisoner of Mars (1942)
The Nest (1943)
Escape Episode (1944)
Drastic Demise (1945)
Escape Episode (shorter sound version) (1946)
Fireworks (1947)*
Puce Moment (1949)*
The Love That Whirls (1949)
Maldoror (1951-1952, unfinished)
Eaux d'Artifice (1953)*
Le Jeune Homme et la Mort (1953)
Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954, recut in 1966)*
Thelema Abbey (1955)
Histoire d'O (1959-1961)
Scorpio Rising (1963)*
Kustom Kar Kommandos (1965)*
Invocation of My Demon Brother (1969)*
Lucifer Rising (1970-1980)*
Rabbit's Moon (1972)*
Don't Smoke That Cigarette (2000)
The Man We Want to Hang (2002)
Anger Sees Red (2004)
Elliott's Suicide (2004)
Mouse Heaven (2004)

* Collected in Magick Lantern Cycle

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