SITE SANTA FE AND PLAN B PRESENT KENNETH ANGER FILM RETROSPECTIVE: THE MAGICK
LANTERN CYCLE TO BE HELD AT PLAN B SEPTEMBER 8 AND 9, 2001
Santa Fe, New Mexico -- In conjunction
with its Fourth International Biennial exhibition, Beau Monde: Toward
a Redeemed Cosmopolitanism, SITE Santa Fe, in collaboration with Plan
B: The Center for Contemporary Arts, is pleased to present a film retrospective
of the oeuvre of the influential avant-garde filmmaker, Kenneth Anger, entitled
The Magick Lantern Cycle. Part of SITE Santa Fe's Art & Culture
series, the program will be held over two evenings, Saturday, September
8, and Sunday, September 9th, 2001, at Plan B, beginning at 8 pm
each night. Mr. Anger will be on hand to make remarks following each evening's
films. Tickets are $7; $5 for students, seniors, and members of SITE Santa
Fe and Plan B. Separate admission is required for each night. A pass for both
evenings will be available for $12/$9. Tickets will go on sale at Plan B beginning
August 31, 2001. Plan B is located at 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM 87505,
505-982-1338.
Saturday, September 8's program will be as follows:
Fireworks (1947), Puce Moment (1949), Eaux d'Artifice
(1953), and The Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954), total running
time: 73 minutes. A discussion with the artist will follow.
Sunday, September 9's program will be as follows:
Scorpio Rising (1963), Kustom Kar Kommandos (1965), Invocation
of My Demon Brother (1969), Rabbit's Moon (1972), Lucifer Rising
(1980), total running time: 88 minutes. A discussion with the artist will
follow.
Kenneth Anger literally burst onto the American art landscape in 1947 with
his first film. Fireworks was a 15-minute tour de force, in which America's
post-war subconscious was made luminous and projected on a screen. The film
established Anger as the Godfather of American avant-garde film. Over the
next three decades Anger would maintain his maverick reputation by independently
creating his renowned Magick Lantern Cycle, a series of densely poetic
films still influential today. Filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese, David Lynch,
and Todd Haynes have named him as an inspiration to their own work. Anger,
who grew up a child star in Hollywood, has also published two books, Hollywood
Babylon, and Hollywood Babylon II, which expose the seamier side
of Tinseltown.
SITE Santa Fe's Art & Culture series is partially supported by The
Brown Foundation, Inc., Houston, Lannan Foundation, Madelin Coit and Alan
Levin, Bobbie Foshay-Miller and Chuck Miller, and Marlene Nathan Meyerson.
Concurrent with the Kenneth Anger film retrospective is SITE Santa Fe's Fourth
International Biennial exhibition, entitled Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed
Cosmopolitanism, curated by Dave Hickey, which will be on view through
January 6, 2002.
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