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Article: Pop: No rest for the wicked Kenneth Anger, underground film-maker, occult devotee and all- round evangelist of the weird, has been a key countercultural figure since the 1960s. Now, says Phil Johnson, UK bands are paying tribute to his influence
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 30, 2001
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When they come to write the great scholarly history of the pop
video, a sizeable early chapter should by rights be devoted to the
influence of Kenneth Anger, the American underground film-maker,
author of Hollywood Babylon, and magician. In Anger's pioneering
work, especially the celebrated Scorpio Rising of 1963, one finds an
aesthetic for cutting images in sync to pop music that, with
relatively little amendment, has since become the template for
countless MTV promos. As Anger's art is linked to that of Jean
Cocteau, and through Cocteau to the whole Romantic tradition of
European thought, you'd think MTV would be flattered to acknowledge
its illustrious forebear, or at least bung him the ...
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