Invocation of My Demon Brother
| Invocation of My Demon Brother | |
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| Directed by | Kenneth Anger |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Kenneth Anger |
| Edited by | Kenneth Anger |
| Music by | Mick Jagger |
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Running time | 11 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Invocation of My Demon Brother (1969) is an 11-minute film photographed, directed and edited by Kenneth Anger.
Production
[edit]Its repetitive noise music soundtrack was composed by Mick Jagger playing a Moog synthesizer. It was filmed in San Francisco at the Straight Theater on Haight Street in Haight-Ashbury and at the William Westerfeld House.[1]
According to Anger, the film, starring Mick Jagger, Manson family member Bobby Beausoleil and Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey, was assembled from scraps of the first version of Lucifer Rising. It includes clips of the cast smoking hashish out of a skull and a Satanic funeral ceremony for a cat.
Cast
[edit]- Speed Hacker as wand bearer
- Kenneth Anger as magus
- Lenore Kandel as deaconess
- Bill "Sweet William" Fritsch as deacon
- Van Leuven as acolyte
- Harvey Bialy and Timotha Doane (formerly Bialy) as the brother and sister of the rainbow
- Anton LaVey as his Satanic majesty
- Bobby Beausoleil as Lucifer
- Mick Jagger as himself
Reception and legacy
[edit]Invocation of My Demon Brother won the Tenth Annual Film Culture award.[2]
Author Gary Lachman claims that the film "inaugurat[ed] the midnight movie cult at the Elgin Theatre."[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Brottman, M.; Rowe, C.; Powell, A. (2002). Hunter, Jack (ed.). Moonchild: The Films of Kenneth Anger. London: Creation Books. p. 112. ISBN 978-1-84068-029-4.
- ^ Sitney, P. Adams (2000). Film Culture Reader (2nd ed.). America: Cooper Square Press. ISBN 978-0-8154-1101-7.
- ^ Lachman, Gary (2001). Turn Off Your Mind: The Mystic Sixties and the Dark Side of the Age of Aquarius. New York: Disinformation. p. 305. ISBN 978-0-283-06366-4.