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Article: Puce Modern Moment: Camp, Postmodernism, and the Films of Kenneth Anger
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- Journal of Film and Video
- Article date:
- December 1, 2006
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WE OPEN ON AN ITEM OF WOMEN'S CLOTHING spread across the screen like a theater curtain. The curtain rises to reveal another item of clothing, and another, and another. Dresses, shawls, negligees-silken, sequined, diaphanous-flutter past like a disembodied dance of the seven veils. On the sound track, harsh, whining electric-guitar music clashes with the soft, sensual image, as does the snarling Mick Jagger-like vocal:
I've learned a lot, shooting through my mind.
Things I never guessed at before.
And so I've decided to live my life alone.
I'm going to learn to fly the clouds.
I'm going to learn to fly the wind,
I won't stop till I've understood the dark.
The lifting of the last veil, a ...