Anger Me

D: Elio Gelmini

Anger Me is a brief and intimate documentary portrait of experimental filmmaker Kenneth Anger. Before a collage of his various avant-garde, homoerotic film clips – among them black-and-white 16mm images of discreetly toned sailors with red and white fluid surging from their penises – Anger narrates his life. A self-described poetic black sheep, Anger divorced himself from the Hollywood scene in the Forties and influenced many artists and filmmakers immersed in the underground scene of the Sixties and Seventies. Anger discusses his passion for the experimental and the occult and offers some historical perspective to a cinematic period rarely discussed in modern forums other than independent film festivals and film schools birthing the era’s next perverted cinematic poetic genius.

Anger Me is preceded by local filmmaker Mocha Jean Herrup’s documentary short “Today I Become a Man,” the story of a man who tries to convince those who matter that he’s a “real” drag king. – Sofia Resnick

Friday, Oct. 5, 2:15pm, Arbor 1

This article appears in September 28 • 2007.

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