Its like a love song or poem all about the beauty and. Born in 1973 in wuppertal, germany, tobias zielony studied documentary. Stanya kahn is listed alongside harry dodge in the ds rather than. 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. Department of film and video spring program schedule, 0301197405311974. The artist order for this list is the same as on ubuweb, for the most part alphabetical except when an artist is part of a filmmaking team and does not have their own individual ubuweb page eg. With its first volume acting like an instructional manual on the birth of american avantgarde filmmaking the films of kenneth anger. Video times kustom kar kommandos, 1965, 3 minutes, color.
With kenneth anger, bobby beausoleil, donald cammell, haydn couts. As is standard procedure for a nick zedd flick, the film wastes no time flashing swastikas for no apparent reason, albeit this time the glorious. I love the avantgarde cinema, so i decided to create a new list dedicated to it. Discussion in the hokey ass message board started by fuzz991, oct 9, 2009.
Kustom kar kommandos is about the closest youll come to making love to a hot rod. As one learns towards the zany conclusion of emperor tomato ketchup, if you have a beard, you can have an empire, even if youre a 7yearold sadist with a fake beard. Imagery and the choice of camera angles imply an intense eroticism. For me, another possible starting point, overlooked by the documentary, would be kenneth angers 1965 art house short kustom kar kommandos. I think the kustom kar kommandos is the extreme like high art version of something that i was trying to sort of put into the list in a general way which sort of includes everything from resin fetish art to low rider culture. Kalandia kustom kar kommandos dream lover, 2014, 4 min zielonys film reprises kenneth angers kustom kar kommandos 1965 in a very different setting. The dresses are removed and danced off the rack to music. The 50 greatest experimental films list challenges. As always, he sees celluloid as a medium, as important to expression as paints, clay, canvases and ones hands. If you are looking for something interesting to do on a budget, you can pick and choose from 63 free events in new york city nyc. Tobias zielony is known for his photographic depiction of juvenile minorities in suburban areas a subject he. There are numerous films that appear on multiple ubuweb pages.
The film opens with a camera watching 1920sstyle flapper gowns being taken off a dress rack. This would have been my dream car when i was in high school. A miracle of modernday restoration techniques, these two discs present mr. A major group exhibition opened up at the barbican art gallery. Also known as aka original title kustom kar kommandos. Volume 2 shows the extent to which the directors imagination would expand. It opens with the sounds of a revving engine and features a man lovingly buffing a. Kenneth anger met a guy with a beautiful customdetailed hot rod and got him to agree to having the car and himself filmed. I would have been riding my 10 speed bike to my minimum wage job when this guy would have sped by me with a couple of beautiful girls in the bird. Puce moment is a short 6minute film by kenneth anger. Roger, glad to hear your still alive, cannt get away from them kustom can we.
Kustom kar kommandos is another short by kenneth anger. How has that influenced your architectural aesthetic. 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. This film is not currently playing on mubi but 30 other great films are. Filmed in 1949, puce moment resulted from the unfinished short film puce women. The show explores how masculinity is experienced, performed, coded and socially constructed as expressed and documented through photography and film from the 1960s to the present day. Liberation through photography the exhibition sparks conversations surrounding our understanding of masculinity. Its hemingway meets kustom kar kommandos as alain guiraudie sets latent homosexual lust against greasy metallic parts. Kustom kar kommandos could be the best thing you see all day. Scorpio rising is a 1963 american experimental short film directed by kenneth anger and starring bruce byron who anger asserts was halfcrazy as scorpio. Kool kustom kar show open until 7 tonight 9 4 on sundaymillions of dollars in kool iron.
A man in tight jeans buffs his car to the strains of dream lover. Release dates 2 also known as aka 2 release dates finland 6 february 1970 tv premiere france 7 april 1973. Hollywood babylon is a book by avantgarde filmmaker kenneth anger which purportedly details the sordid scandals of famous hollywood denizens from the 1900s to the 1950s. Lecture by independent filmmaker kenneth anger, 4161973. 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. 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. Kustom kar kommandos is a 1965 experimental film by kenneth anger. Kustom kar kommandos is a successful fragment of another larger film anger wanted to make about youth culture. That which survives is an ode to a young man and his car. Kustom kar kommandos by kenneth anger leche by naomi uman light point by kenji onishi little flags by jem cohen. Other highlights included a retrospective of the work of kenneth anger, who attended the fest and screened fireworks 1947, scorpio rising 1963 and kkk kustom kar kommandos 1965 at the congress hotel, 520 s. 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 rautert in 2001. A season outside, amar kanwar sin, susanna helke and virpi suutari soft fiction, chick strand.
Kustom kar kommandos 1965 invocation of my demon brother 1969. Authorized alpine, jl audio, pioneer and other top level car audio. There is no dialog, just a slowly moving camera with deliberately intense colors. In mid1966, anger began renting a flat on the ground floor of the westerfeld house, referred to by locals as the russian embassy, a. 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. Beginning with a drawing of a brown eyeball that looks like it might have been smeared with feces, whoregasm seems to immediately warn the viewer that that a tidalwave of sloppy steaming celluloid shit is about to be rudely excreted onto their eyes. Kustom kar in kingsport kustom kar 2303 fort henry dr. Lucifer rising is a short film by director kenneth anger.
Find kustom kar in kingsport with address, phone number from yahoo us local. Although virtually completed in 1972, the film was only widely distributed in 1980, after bobby beausoleil delivered the finished soundtrack master. A follower of aleister crowleys teachings, anger is a high level practitioner. Kustom kar kommandos is not surprisingly something to drag about, at least, automotively speaking, or the funfilled, teensvilletake on typical, midsixties pompadoured, powderpuffed, chromedout hot rodders, ford bargained for.
Themes central to the film include the occult, biker subculture, homosexuality, catholicism, and nazism. Rabbits moon extended version, eaux dartifice, inauguration of the pleasure dome, scorpio rising, kustom kar kommandos, invocation of my demon brother, and lucifer rising. Anger made the episode presently shown as kustom kar kommandos to raise funds to finish the film, but was unable to. Seriously campaigned for the role of tony in west side story 1961. Ironically, he would wind up winning his only golden globe award in 1962 for most promising newcomer in a virtual tie with with richard beymer, who got the role as tony, and. Kustom kar kommandos 1970 kustom kar kommandos 1970. However, the ford foundations grant quickly ran out, and only one 3minute episode was ever produced. Kenneth anger great director profile senses of cinema. Upon its second release, the new york times said of it, if a book such as this can be said to have charm, it lies in the.
Anger s seminal avantgarde films with visual qualities long obscured in faded film prints. Angers short, a precursor of the music video genre the paris sisters dream lover 1964 plays in the. Scorpio rising film wikimili, the free encyclopedia. Egyptian gods summons the angel lucifer in order to usher in a new occult age. Kenneth anger fireworks, puce moment, rabbits moon, eaux d. Kustom kar kommandos could be the best thing you see all.