Kenneth Anger was an American underground experimental filmmaker, actor, and author.
Working exclusively in short films, he produced almost 40 works beginning in 1937, nine of which have been grouped as the “Magick Lantern Cycle.
Kenneth Anger’s children: Did he have kids?
Born in a middle-class Presbyterian family in Santa Monica, California, Kenneth Anger does not have a child, on his own. Kenneth had been spoiled by his mother and grandmother and became somewhat “bratty”.
His grandmother Bertha was a strong influence on the young Kenneth and supported the family financially during the Great Depression.
Anger’s first film was created in 1937 when he was ten years old. The short, Ferdinand the Bull, was shot on the remains of 16 mm film that had been left unused after the Anglemyers had made home movies with it on a family vacation to Yosemite National Park.
Kenneth Anger, queer filmmaker and avant-garde pioneer whose experimental films drew on his interests in Tinseltown glamour and occultist Aleister Crowley, dies at 96. https://t.co/8hJi9OWKIw
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) May 24, 2023
Anger has been called “one of America’s first openly gay filmmakers”, with several films released before homosexuality was legalized in the U.S. Anger also explored occult themes in many of his films; he was fascinated by the English occultist Aleister Crowley and an adherent of Thelema, the religion Crowley founded.
