Filmography
| Date | Title | Length | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | Ferdinand the Bull | Lost film | |
| 1941 | Who Has Been Rocking My Dreamboat | 07 mins. | A silent black-and-white film in which Anger filmed twelve other children in Santa Monica, California, interspersed with images of war and destruction, which ends when a fog fills their playground and they all fall down, apparently dead. |
| 1941–1942 | Tinsel Tree | 03 mins. | A silent black-and-white film that Anger personally hand tinted with gold-scarlet over the flames. It featured a Christmas tree being dressed in decorations, before being shown stripped and bare and set on fire. |
| 1942 | Prisoner of Mars | 11 mins. | A silent black-and-white film that mixes futuristic science fiction with the ancient Greek myth of the Minotaur. The plot revolves around a character, The Boy Elect from Earth, played by Anger himself, who is sent in a rocket to Mars where he finds himself in a labyrinth filled with the bones of other adolescents sent there in the past. |
| 1943 | NestThe Nest | 20 mins. | A silent black-and-white film in which a brother (played by Bob Jones) and sister (Jo Whittaker) are examining mirrors when a third figure (Dare Harris), causes them to act violently against one another, before a magical rite takes place in which the sister's binding spell is destroyed by the brother. |
| 1944 | Demigods (Escape Episode) | 35 mins. | A silent black-and-white film based upon the ancient Greek myth of Andromeda, in which a girl (Marilyn Granas) is imprisoned within a seaside crumbling Neo-Gothic church guarded by a religious fanatic (Nora Watson), till she is saved by a boy representing Perseus (Bob Jones). |
| 1945 | Drastic Demise | 05 mins. | A silent black-and-white work filmed by Anger in Hollywood on V-J Day. Consisting of footage of a celebratory crowd, it ends with an image of a nuclear mushroom cloud. |
| 1946 | Escape Episode | 27 mins. | A shortened version of Demigods (Escape Episode), it features Scriabin's The Poem of Ecstasy alongside the sounds of birds, wind and surf. |
| 1947 | Fireworks | 15 mins. | Filmed in black and white, it is a homoerotic work seen through the eyes of the protagonist, played by Anger himself. |
| 1949 | Puce Moment | 06 mins. | Filmed in color, starring Yvonne Marquis as a celebrity in her home, and featuring music by Jonathan Halper, Puce Moment lasted only one scene and portrays her examining her dresses and perfume. |
| 1949 | Love That WhirlsThe Love That Whirls | unknown | Influenced by James Frazer's anthropological text The Golden Bough, it was set in the Aztec civilisation, and featured a youth who was chosen to be king for a year before being ritually sacrificed. The film was subsequently destroyed at the Eastman-Kodac developing plant, who objected to its theme and nudity. |
| 1950 | Rabbit's Moon | 16 mins (1972) 7 mins (1979) |
Filmed in 35mm, it is set in a small wooded glade where a clown stares up at the moon, in which a rabbit lives. |
| 1951–1952 | Les Chants de Maldoror | unknown | Based upon the 1868 novel by Isidore Ducasse, Le Comte de Lautreamont, only test shots were produced, in which he employed members of the Marquis de Cuevas ballet. |
| 1953 | Eaux d'Artifice | 12 mins. | A short, monochromatic film appearing in dark blue, with only one moment of color – a woman opens a fan that glows in bright green. The woman appears in a gown stretching from neck to toe, wearing dark glasses and a feathered headdress. Water flows throughout, from fountains, and suggestively through the mouths and over the faces of statuary. Fluids sensually pulse and flow, reminiscent of sexual climax. In the end the woman steps from a door seemingly from the side of a fountain, and is herself transformed into water. The film is set to the music of Vivaldi's Winter Movement from the Four Seasons. |
| 1953 | Le Jeune Homme et la Mort | unknown | Based upon the ballet by Jean Cocteau, this silent black-and-white film starred Jean Babilee as a young man and Nathalie Philipart as Death. It was a 16mm pilot designed to be used to raise funds to produce a 35mm Technicolor version, but the funding for this never materialized. |
| 1954 | Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome | 38 mins. | |
| 1955 | Thelema Abbey | 10 mins. | A short, black-and-white documentary on Aleister Crowley's Abbey of Thelema in Sicily, which examined many of the exotic frescoes, a study in which Anger was assisted by sexologist Alfred Kinsey. |
| 1961 | L'Histoire d'O | 20 mins. | Based upon Pauline Réage's 1954 novel, L'Histoire d'O, it revolved around the sado-masochistic sexual activities of a heterosexual couple. Anger would later relate that the money provided for the film had been a part of the ransom paid to the kidnappers of Eric Peugeot, heir to the Peugeot car company fortune. |
| 1963 | Scorpio Rising | 29 mins. | |
| 1965 | Kustom Kar Kommandos | 03 mins. | In color, set to the tones of "Dream Lover" by The Paris Sisters, several handsome young men stand admiringly over the chassis of a souped-up hot rod. A young man slowly works the chamois over the chrome and paint of the machine. The young man now smartly dressed in matching pastel blue gets behind the wheel and begins to work the controls. Finally the engine revs and the car rolls away. |
| 1969 | Invocation of My Demon Brother | 12 mins. | In color, with an electronic score by Rolling Stones lead singer Mick Jagger. The film features an array of occult symbols and activities, including a Satanic funeral for a cat. Demon Brother also includes Anton LaVey as a priest, newsreel footage of the Vietnam War, and clips of The Rolling Stones' July 1969 free concert in London's Hyde Park, their first public appearance after the death of Brian Jones and their first performance with Mick Taylor. Also shown in the concert footage are Jagger's then-girlfriend and pop singer Marianne Faithfull and Keith Richards' wife, actress Anita Pallenberg. Demon Brother is mostly assembled from footage for Anger's original version of Lucifer Rising, including scenes of future Manson Family associate Bobby Beausoleil in the titular role. |
| 1970–1980 | Lucifer Rising | 29 mins. | |
| 1976 | Senators in Bondage | Announced, but never produced | |
| 1977 | Matelots en Menottes | Announced, but never produced | |
| 1979 | Denunciation of Stan Brakhage | 07 mins. | Announced, but never produced |
| 2000 | Don't Smoke That Cigarette! | ||
| 2002 | Man We Want to HangThe Man We Want to Hang | 12 mins. | |
| 2004 | Anger Sees Red | 04 mins. | Comprises footage of a muscled man, who identifies himself only as "Red", walking through a park and sunbathing, at which he is seen by Anger himself, who is also in the park, before subsequently returning home. |
| 2004 | Patriotic Penis | ||
| 2005 | Mouse Heaven | 11 mins. | A montage of Mickey Mouse memorabilia from the 1920s and 1930s, accompanied by contemporary jazz music |
| 2007 | Elliott's Suicide | 15 mins. | |
| 2007 | I'll Be Watching You | 05 mins. | |
| 2007 | My Surfing Lucifer | 04 mins. | Color with no sound; "A Tribute to my Surfing Pal Adolph Bunker Spreckels III" "BUNKY". A young man with a white mercedes, the rolling waves breaking on the beach, the surfers riding them in. The film ends with a closeup of the skinned elbow of the surfer, presumably abraded during a wipeout. |
| 2008 | Death | 0042 secs. | |
| 2008 | Foreplay | 07 mins. | |
| 2008 | Ich Will! | 35 mins. | |
| 2008 | Uniform Attraction | 21 mins. | |
| 2010 | Missoni | 02 mins. 32 secs. |
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