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Gay filmmaker and author Kenneth Anger, known for his experimental and homoerotic movies and his wildly gossipy “Hollywood Babylon” books, has died at age 96.
Anger died May 11, but his death was just widely reported this week. He died at an assisted-living facility in Yucca Valley, Spencer Glesby, a spokesman for Sprüth Magers, an art gallery that represented Anger, told national media outlets.
In 2006, Anger received the Outfest Achievement Award for his undeniably influential works in LGBTQ+ film, such as 1947’s “Fireworks” and 1963’s “Scorpio Rising.”
“Anger’s cutting-edge films often included gay themes that went against the grain of society, and which still inspire our community today,” Outfest said in a post about Anger’s death.
Anger, sometimes called the godfather of queer film, grew up in the Los Angeles area and began making movies in his youth. He was 20 when he made “Fireworks,” shot in his parents’ Beverly Hills home when they were out of town.
Anger appears in the 14-minute film having “a sadomasochistic encounter with a group of musclebound sailors, one of whom undoes his pants to reveal a Roman candle,” as The New York Times describes the movie in its Kenneth Anger obituary.
“Fireworks” “was a daring exploration of gay desire,” The Washington Post notes, and film scholar Ryan Powell has called it “arguably the highest profile homoerotic film of the postwar years.”
A theater operator who showed the movie was convicted of violating obscenity laws, but the conviction was overturned on appeal.
His most famous film, 1963’s “Scorpio Rising,” follows the adventures of a group of leather-jacketed motorcyclists as they ride and party. It “alternately treated the motorcyclists as sex symbols, neo-Nazis and
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Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic Most artists, if they’re lucky, invent one thing. But Kenneth Anger, who was a filmmaker, an author, a debauched aristocratic scenester and, to the day of his death at 96 (he reportedly died May 11, though it wasn’t made public until May 24), a figure of puckish mystery, invented several things, each of them epic. In “Fireworks,” his transcendent 14-minute avant-garde film of 1947, Anger invented the very consciousness and imagery of gay liberation — not the desire to be liberated (which was buried in the hearts of gay people everywhere), but the rapturous visual reverie of what that liberation might look like, what it would feel like, why it seemed so forbidden, and why it needed to be. In “Scorpio Rising,” his homoerotic demon-biker/Top-40-orgy blast from the underground, Anger invented MTV, invented what Martin Scorsese did in “Mean Streets” and David Lynch did in “Blue Velvet,” invented a way to express how music and reality talk to each other.