Invocation of My Demon Brother
Invocation of My Demon Brother (1969) is an 11-minute film directed, edited, and photographed by Kenneth Anger. The music was composed by Mick Jagger playing a Moog synthesizer. It was filmed in San Francisco at the Straight Theater on Haight Street and the William Westerfeld House (the former "Russian Embassy" nightclub).[1]
According to Anger, the film was assembled from scraps of the first version of Lucifer Rising. It includes clips of the cast smoking out of a skull, and the publicly filmed Satanic funeral ceremony for a pet cat.
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]
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 Bially as the Brother and Sister of the Rainbow
- Anton LaVey as His Satanic Majesty
- Bobby Beausoleil as Lucifer
- Mick Jagger as Himself
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Brottman, M.; Rowe, C.; Powell, A. (2002). Jack Hunter (ed.). Moonchild: The films of Kenneth Anger. London: Creation Books. p. 112.
- ^ Sitney, P. Adams (2000). Film Culture Reader (2nd ed.). America: Cooper Square Press.
- ^ Lachman, Gary (2001). Turn Off Your Mind: The Mystic Sixties and the Dark Side of the Age of Aquarius (New York: Disinformation). ISBN 0-88064-278-5, p. 305.
External links[edit]
- Invocation of My Demon Brother at IMDb
- Magick in Theory and Practice: Ritual Use of Colour in Kenneth Anger's Invocation of My Demon Brother
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