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Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome is a 38-minute avant-garde short film by Kenneth Anger. It was filmed in December 1953 and completed in 1954. Anger created two other versions of this film in 1966 and the late 1970s. According to him, the film takes the name "pleasure dome" from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's atmospheric 1816 poem Kubla Khan.
Nel 1954 torna brevemente negli Stati Uniti dove gira uno dei suoi film più famosi, Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, ispirato ai rituali di Aleister Crowley. Mentre praticamente tutti i suoi film sono cortometraggi che durano da 3,5 a 30 minuti, nel 1955 gira un documentario sulla rovina dell' Abbazia di Thélema di Crowley, a Cefalù in ...
Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome: Directed by Kenneth Anger. With Samson De Brier, Marjorie Cameron, Joan Whitney, Katy Kadell. Historical, biblical, and mythical characters gather in the pleasure dome and become part of a visual feast of superimposed images, hallucinations, and decadence.
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22 ago 2021 · One of his most celebrated achievements is his 1954 cult-classic Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, a rich short film that draws on occult symbolism to construct a masterful commentary on religion and faith in the modern world. Imbued with cosmic power, the film flows fluidly from one image to another as Anger subjects us to a transcendental ...
1954. Directed by Kenneth Anger. Lord Shiva wakes. A convocation of magicians in the guise of figures from mythology; a masquerade party at which Pan is the prize. The wine of Hecate is poured: Pan’s cup is poisoned by Shiva. Kali blesses the assembly as a bacchic rite ensues. Remove Ads. Cast. Crew. Details. Genres. Releases.
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Craig Baldwin’s Mock Up On Mu is the first example I’ve seen of his brand of Bruce Conner-influenced experimental cut-up narratives. Directed by famed homoerotic underground filmmaker Kenneth Anger in 1954, Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome is considered a key work of American experimental film.
In Kenneth Anger Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954) was a kaleidoscopic montage of performers, including Nin, in the guise of various deities. Those themes, reflective of Anger’s adherence to the mystical teachings of British occultist Aleister Crowley, would pervade much of his later work.
