Kenneth Anger restorations

From: Mark Toscano (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Aug 07 2006 - 12:28:20 PDT


Howdy all -

Ross Lipman asked me to forward this to Frameworks -

mark t

p.s. was at the show myself, and the prints look
excellent

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The UCLA Film & Television Archive announces the
availability of newly restored works of Kenneth Anger
in pristine 35mm prints. The restoration premiere
occurred on Saturday, August 5, 2006, at the James
Bridges Theater with Kenneth Anger in person
interviewed by preservationist Ross Lipman.

The evening included UCLA's new version of RABBIT'S
MOON, reconstructed from the original 35mm camera
negative, presenting the cinematography's original
image orientation for the first time, and also the
rare Anger voiceover prologue to FIREWORKS, shown at
its full original release length.

The newly restored 35mm prints of SCORPIO RISING,
KUSTOM KAR KOMMANDOS, FIREWORKS, and RABBIT'S MOON are
available to cinematheques and festivals capable of
archival quality 35mm film projection. For
information on print bookings contact Todd Wiener of
UCLA at (address suppressed) (The archive hopes to
preserve more of Anger's films in the future, although
no specific
plans are in place yet.)

FILMS OF KENNETH ANGER
Kenneth Anger is one of the giants of American
underground and experimental filmmaking. His films
draw on pop iconography, from commedia dell'arte to
Hollywood and a wide variety of 20th century
subcultures: the worlds of bikers, occultists, and
queers. This iconography is presented in a variety
of ways, from documentary footage to elaborate mise en
scene to Eisensteinian montage, but always the result
is an eruption of the primal into the modern. Music
videos and queer cinema would not be what they are
without his influence, which has also touched
filmmakers from Martin Scorsese to Olivier Assayas.
The Archive is proud to present new 35mm prints of
four of Anger's most famous films.

FIREWORKS
1947 35mm, 15 min.
Preservation funded by The Film Foundation

RABBIT'S MOON
1971 35mm, 16 min.
Preserved through the Avant-Garde Masters program
funded by The Film
Foundation and administered by the National Film
Preservation Foundation

SCORPIO RISING
1963 35mm, 29 min.
Preservation funded by The Film Foundation

KUSTOM KAR KOMMANDOS
1965 35mm, 3 min.
Preservation funded by The Film Foundation

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