6/26/2023 0 Comments Kenneth anger babylon![]() ![]() He remains as resistant to identity politics as he’s always been. Finch at one point asks whether Fireworks, the first film in Anger’s Magick Lantern Cycle, should be regarded as a pioneering piece of gay cinema Anger’s says he’s happy if people take it that way but says little else about its evident homoerotic atmosphere. ![]() Some of that proselytising impulse can be found in Kenneth Anger’s Hollywood Babylon (1991), an hour-long documentary which alternates the life and work of the filmmaker with readings and enactments of the lurid episodes recounted in Anger’s scandal anthologies, Hollywood Babylon and Hollywood Babylon II. The films he directed himself-among them studies of Robert Mapplethorpe’s photography, and a history of the Chelsea Hotel in New York-gave him an opportunity to push some gay content into the TV schedules at a time when Britain’s gay population were seen as enough of a public threat to be legislated against. Nigel Finch was a key member of the team of producers and directors working on the BBC’s Arena arts documentaries throughout their golden run during the 1980s and 1990s. ![]()
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