The five letters of his name, or in seven letters: THELEMAĬan you divulge what his latest project, “Uniform Attraction” is about? The ‘Scorpio Rising’ image was then on the cover… I was completely overcome… he allowed me to produce the first new color frame enlargements from his films.

Under a large Christmas tree and there I met this most charming, gracious, interesting, and witty gentleman. Again, the occasion was so memorable – meeting at the Chateau Marmont on Sunset Blvd. In 2003 I proposed writing a feature on Kenneth Anger looking at his influence on contemporary artists who’d adopted the moving image as their medium, for the LA-London journal ‘After all,’ which provided the occasion to interview him in person. The years passed, I became a Curator and Art Writer, lived in New York, London and moved to Los Angeles in 1998 as Associate Director and Curator for Ace Gallery. Ha!) But on an aesthetic and very visceral level, it was a profound experience. Professor Horrocks had just introduced us to the radical film work of the American avant-garde, which is really foundational for film studies globally, and I almost levitated when I saw ‘Scorpio Rising’ for the first time (you see I am a Scorpio, and my birthday is on Halloween. The fabulous civic theater hosted a memorable screening of Anger’s masterwork ‘The Magick Lantern Cycle,’ and after standing in a long line of die-hard fans, he signed my black notebook with a silver marker I’d brought along. Anger was doing a world tour in 1993 with a stop in Auckland, New Zealand, where i was a student at the time studying art history, and masters film studies with Roger Horrocks, Len Lye’s biographer. With ‘Hollywood Babylon’ being the international classic that it has been over the last few decades, that book was my and countless others’ first introduction to Kenneth Anger and his mordant wit. How did your association with Kenneth Anger begin?

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