Article: The Films of Kenneth Anger: Volume One

The Films of Kenneth Anger: Volume One

Fantoma Films

Released January 23

Kenneth Anger Comes Home

Five shorts, one mind-blowing DVD, and your couch

BY NATHAN LEE

Nothing suffers more on home video than avant-garde film, by its nature inclined to explore the outer limits, innate qualities, and subtlest effects of its medium. Yet nothing is more exciting, from the perspective of the living-room cinematheque (a/k/a the future of cinephilia) than the recent boon in experimental DVDs. Sure, they suffer on the small screen-and Flaubert is better in the original French-but that doesn't prevent translations of Sentimental Education from blowing minds.

The latest blast from the avant-garde cannon, ...

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