Charged with a tickling eroticism and hyperbolically fetishistic aura, this lascivious work of high camp and low culture is infused with an alternately infatuated and critical attitude toward the throbbing iconography of american lore. Fireworks, 1947 puce moment, 194970 eaux dartifice, 1953 inauguration of the pleasure dome, 195466 scorpio rising, 1963 kustom kar kommandos, 1965. Three of the films in this collection, two very short ones fireworks and kustom kar kommandos and one longer one scorpio rising, fit that description i dont recall any actual sex, but there is male nudity. Personal reflections on kustom kar kommandos, digging into bill landiss book on kenneth anger and how the use of music in angers films inspired martin scorsese. Ferrari ceo says dont expect a full ev from the brand until at least 2025. Angers original intent for kustom kar kommandos was to create a featurelength film centering on the role of cars as fetish objects among young american males. Its hemingway meets kustom kar kommandos as alain guiraudie sets latent homosexual lust. However, the ford foundations grant quickly ran out. My first exposure to an avant garde film or film maker was a season of kenneth anger films augmented with the work of other film makers including as i recall jean genets.
He also created a short promotional film for a car company i cant recally which one called kustom kar kommandos. The avantgarde film has become an essential part of cinema. Angers choice of camera work implies an erotic charge and signifies the man and the vehicle as lovers. Scorpio rising the classic underground film of the sixties, and a masterpiece of montage, scorpio rising is described by anger as a conjuration of the presiding princes, angels and spirits of the sphere of mars, formed as a high view of the myth of the american motorcyclist. Born in 1973 in wuppertal, germany, tobias zielony studied documentary photography at the university of wales, newport, before he continued with artistic photography at the academy of fine arts leipzig under timm. From next week, tate modern will be screening such seminal works of arthouse cinema as kenneth angers kustom kar kommandos 1965, where a man strokes. Kustom kar kommandos is a 1965 experimental film by kenneth anger. One of the major figures of the avantgarde new american cinema of the 1950s and 60s, kenneth anger born kenneth anglemyer grew up in hollywood, was a child actor most notably in a midsummer nights dream 1935 and was allegedly making films by the age of ten e. Name this specimen dan stoner on oct 18th, 2018 at 2. A voyeuristic look at a tightjeaned man polishing his metalandchrome mean machine with a feathery puff.
His gritty, violent, often homosexualthemed films were too strong. Kenneth anger grew up in hollywood and started out as a child actor, but his interest in filmmaking was evident at an early age. Kennedy bridge from the bronx to go to astoria pool in queens. In the street, 1952 with levitt and loeb kenneth anger. Set to a rollicking soundtrack in a sordid manhattan apartment, warren sonberts amphetamine takes us from one to a hundred in seconds. Imagery and the choice of camera angles imply an intense eroticism. Kustom kar kommandos could be the best thing you see all day. Anger developed into one of the pioneers of the american underground film movement. The only film directed by this notorious novelist and playwright is set in a prison. Kustom kar kommandos 1965 a man in jeans buffs his car. Every summer when he was a teenager bobby darin used to walk across the triborough bridge now the robert f. Charged with a tickling eroticism and hyperbolically fetishistic aura, this lascivious job of high camp and low culture is infused with an at the same time infatuated and critical attitude toward the throbbing iconography of american lore. Inaccuracies in hollywood babylon archive straight. Three of the films in this collection, two very short ones fireworks and kustom kar kommandos and one longer one scorpio rising, fit that description i dont recall any actual sex, but there is.
Scorpio rising is a 1963 american experimental short film directed by kenneth anger and starring bruce byron who anger asserts was halfcrazy 2 as scorpio. Kenneth angers kustom kar kommandos asks us to feel with our ears, to hear with our eyes, to taste with our bodies. Oscars best picture winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comiccon sundance film festival toronto intl film festival awards central festival central all events. Themes central to the film include the occult, biker subculture, homosexuality, catholicism, and nazism. Inspired by warhol and his prodigies, the first half of the film is chock full of graphic images of intravenous drug use, while the second half takes a hard left turn into something even more dangerous, bloodpumping, and joyous. Kustom kar kommandos 1965 invocation of my demon brother 1969 rabbit s moon 1979 version lucifer rising 1981. Kustom kar kommandos is a successful fragment of another larger film anger wanted to make about youth culture. I love the avantgarde cinema, so i decided to create a new list dedicated to it. The 3minute short features panning shots of a young man sandy trent buffing a customized hot rod in front of an amorphous pink background, to the tune of dream lover by the paris sisters.
Authorized alpine, jl audio, pioneer and other top level car audio. A follower of aleister crowleys teachings, anger is a high level practitioner. American, born 1927 kustom kar kommandos, 1965 16mm color film, sound 3. The bobby darin show 1973 the dean martin show 1970. Kustom kar kommandos observes a young male buffing a customised hotrod as the camera creatively exemplifies details of the car that make it beautiful. Peep into the erotic film archive making selfisolation. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing kustom kar kommandos near you. His films variously merge surrealism with homoeroticism and the occult, and have been. His gritty, violent, often homosexualthemed films were. A man in tight jeans buffs his car to the strains of dream lover. This is similar to my nieces husbands car but his is a hardtop and has swirl in the billboards. A film shot in ramallah under the auspices of a goetheinstitut scholarship is a loose remake of kenneth angers 1965 kustom kar kommandos.
Kenneth angers kustom kar kommandos asks us to truly feel with our hearing, to hear with the eyes, to taste with the bodies. Reminds me of kenneth angers film kar kult kommandos. Zielonys slick kalandia kustom kar kommandos 2014 sees two palestinian men gently polish, then drive, a vintage volkswagen to a soundtrack of the paris sisters version of dream lover 1964. Kustom kar kommandos coming of age, i never could understand the infatuation other guys had for swooning over automobiles. His film is one of the most subtly unusual promotional films ive ever seen. Working exclusively in short films, he has produced almost forty works since 1937, nine of which have been grouped together as the magick lantern cycle. The styling of titles like kinky korner klub and the kool kranium bring kenneth angers kustom kar kommandos to mind, but the mood throughout is more wistful autumnal picnic than it is.
Kenneth anger great director profile senses of cinema. The 50 greatest experimental films list challenges. Kenneth anger born kenneth wilbur anglemyer, february 3, 1927 is an american underground experimental filmmaker, actor and author. February 3, 1927, santa monica, california filmography bibliography articles in senses web resources offering a description of himself for the program of a 1966 screening, kenneth anger stated his lifework as being magick and his magical weapon the cinematograph. Its mostly an adoring look at a beloved hot rod, the all chrome ruby blush dream buggy thats every bit as sexually charged as the fabrics in angers earlier puce moment. Tobias zielony, kalandia kustom kar kommandos dream lover, 2014, hd video, 16. Please note that number of personal lists displayed might be different from the total number of personal lists this movie is in. Kenneth anger fireworks, puce moment, rabbits moon.
Kustom kar kommandos could be the best thing you see all. Of course, i loved the freedom and convenience of driving but unlike other guys, i never had the desire to put thousands of dollars into a car that was probably worth less than my cd collection at the time. Scorpio rising, kustom kar kommandos, inauguration of the. His movies are difficult, nonnarrative, and certainly nonliteral, almost dreamlike in fact the soundtrack of his ode to socal automotive culture, kustom kar kommandos, is the paris sisters dream lover.