Invocation of My Demon Brother

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Invocation of My Demon Brother
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Directed by Kenneth Anger
Starring
Cinematography Kenneth Anger
Edited by Kenneth Anger
Music by Mick Jagger
Release date
  • 1969 (1969)
Running time
11 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Invocation of My Demon Brother (1969) is an 11-minute film photographed, directed and edited by Kenneth Anger.

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Production

Its repetitive noise music soundtrack was composed by Mick Jagger playing a Moog synthesizer. It was filmed in San Francisco at the Straight Theater on Haight Street in Haight-Ashbury and at the William Westerfeld House. [1]

According to Anger, the film, starring Mick Jagger, Manson family member Bobby Beausoleil and Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey, was assembled from scraps of the first version of Lucifer Rising . It includes clips of the cast smoking hashish out of a skull and a Satanic funeral ceremony for a cat.

Cast

Reception and legacy

Invocation of My Demon Brother won the Tenth Annual Film Culture award. [2]

Author Gary Lachman claims that the film "inaugurat[ed] the midnight movie cult at the Elgin Theatre." [3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Brottman, M.; Rowe, C.; Powell, A. (2002). Hunter, Jack (ed.). Moonchild: The Films of Kenneth Anger. London: Creation Books. p. 112. ISBN   978-1-84068-029-4.
  2. ↑ Sitney, P. Adams (2000). Film Culture Reader (2nd ed.). America: Cooper Square Press. ISBN   978-0-8154-1101-7.
  3. ↑ Lachman, Gary (2001). Turn Off Your Mind: The Mystic Sixties and the Dark Side of the Age of Aquarius . New York: Disinformation. p. 305. ISBN   978-0-283-06366-4.
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