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Article: Back to the future with Kenneth Anger

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In the 1940s, '50s, and '60s, Kenneth Anger wasn't simply seeing the future, he was the future. His films were the music videos of their time, connecting the surrealists to the French New Wave to the birth of MTV and proclaiming the artistic possibility of a do-it- yourself aesthetic.

Along with Stan Brakhage and Bruce Conner, Anger (who turned 80 yesterday) is one of the most important experimental filmmakers. Now he's finally got a worthy DVD collection, with his own director's commentary. The first volume of "The Films of Kenneth Anger" includes five of his nine mini-magnum opuses on one disc; presumably, volume two will include his best-known films, "Scorpio ...

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