Kenneth Anger (born February 3, 1927) is an American and author. He began making films around age nine, but his early films are now lost. His first film to see distribution was , filmed in Los Angeles in 1947, which gained the attention of Jean Cocteau, who then invited him to go to Paris. In 1949, Anger directed The Love That Whirls which according to the 1972 book Experimental Cinema contained (faked) nudity, and was thus confiscated by the film lab. 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 Cefalù, Sicily, which is now considered a lost film.
Archivio Aperto is the festival dedicated to the rediscovery of small-format film heritage — private, amateur, experimental, artist’s cinema — and their contemporary reuse organised by Home Movies – Archivio Nazionale del Film di Famiglia.
Fechas:
De Viernes, Septiembre 26, 2025 (Todo el día) hasta Martes, Septiembre 30, 2025 (Todo el día)
Este programa propone una invocación doble: la de Kenneth Anger, mito del cine underground norteamericano fallecido el año pasado, y la de la primera sesión de la historia de Xcèntric en 2001.
Close-Up pays tribute to Kenneth Anger with a screening of the Magick Lantern Cycle. Cinematic magician, legendary provocateur, author of the infamous Hollywood Babylon book, Kenneth Anger was a unique figure in post-war American culture. His iconic short films are characterised by a mystical-symbolic visual language and phantasmagorical-sensual opulence that underscores the medium’s transgressive potential. Anger’s work fundamentally shaped the aesthetics of 1960s and 1970s subcultures, the visual lexicon of pop and music videos and queer iconography.
Cinematic magician, legendary provocateur, author of the infamous Hollywood Babylon book, Kenneth Anger is a unique figure in post-war American culture. His iconic short films are characterised by a mystical-symbolic visual language and phantasmagorical-sensual opulence that underscores the medium’s transgressive potential. Anger’s work fundamentally shaped the aesthetics of 1960s and 1970s subcultures, the visual lexicon of pop and music videos and queer iconography.
Film at Lincoln Center announces New York, 1962–1964: Underground and Experimental Cinemaspotlighting the rise of the New American Cinema, running from July 29–August 4.
1962 to 1964 was a pivotal moment in the evolution of American arts and culture, especially in New York City. These years, crucial to the development of Pop, Minimalism, and performance, saw the emergence of a new generation of radical artists, as well as venues that gave their iconoclastic work a home and a context. Movies, meanwhile, were undergoing a transformation of their own: the rise of a truly independent cinema, of works unencumbered by the medium’s aesthetic conventions and commercial imperatives.
Fechas:
De Viernes, Julio 29, 2022 (Todo el día) hasta Jueves, Agosto 4, 2022 (Todo el día)
Katherine Bauerwas born in Houston, Texas, and has recently been living in France.She mainly works with 16mm film and its plastic potential in the context of sculptures, installa
Art Cinema OFFoff presents a 16mm open-air program of five films in the outdoor theater of the Citadelpark. This free evening is part of Publiek Park – a four-day open-air exhibition (July 1-4), organized by the Young Friends v/h S.M.A.K., which brings together visual art, performance, music and cinema at the crossroads of culture, nature and heritage.
Microscope is very pleased to present True Fairy Tales, an online screening program of works in video, film, stop motion animation, 3D animation, AI, and augmented reality by Kenneth Anger, Tessa Hughes-Freeland, Tomi Omololu-Lange, Jonas Mekas, Michelle Nguyen, Anne Spalter, Ziyang Wu, and Ezra Wube centered around the topic of fairytales.
Desde sus inicios el cine se anuncia como una promesa lumínica de un cuerpo en movimiento. En la pantalla el cuerpo danza, el cuerpo goza, desafía a veces los cánones de representación y nos invita a reflexionar sobre cuestiones de identidad y género. Esta edición del Aula Xcèntric propone un acercamiento a la historia del cine experimental a través de la fascinación de los y las cineastas de vanguardia por la figuración del cuerpo y por las posibilidades que ofrece la materia fílmica y el cine digital para representarlo.
