Kenneth Anger, Counterculture Filmmaker and Author, Passes Away at 96.
Kenneth Anger was an experimental filmmaker known for his homoerotic and surreal works. His landmark short film, Fireworks, won an obscenity case and gained a cult following. Anger's cousin starred in his 1949 short Puce Moment, featuring dresses apparently moving by themselves. He became friendly with sexologist Alfred Kinsey and made a film about the derelict Abbey of Thelema. Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome depicted deities and legends assembling in a fantastical space, fully embracing Crowley's ideas.