Kenneth Anger is a seminal avant film-maker
This is a bit insane. Kenneth Anger, occult-savant, and legendary avant garde film-maker has produced a 2 and half minute film for a fashion house. Dangerous Minds reports:
Rather astonishing news from the fashion and film world. Dangerous Minds’ favefilmmaker Kenneth Anger has released a two-and-a-half-minute film dealing with the fall/winter collection of the Varese-based house of Missoni, produced by filmmaker/Anger manager/Dangerous Minds pal Brian Butler and scored by French composer Koudlam
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Vogue Italia‘s Mariuccia Casadio provides some details:
A man of few words, this fascinating former actor who still takes care of his appearance first filmed the settings for his film “Missoni”: mostly locations near bodies of water in the Sumirago countryside and part of Rosita and Ottavio’s garden. For the indoor sequences, he built a set in the Council Room of the Sumirago Town Hall, a basement room with a vaulted ceiling. The mood of the film and the poses and movements of Margherita, Jennifer, Angela, Rosita, Ottavio, Ottavio Jr. and all other [Missoni] family members are reminiscent of Sergei Parajanov’s “The Color of Pomegranates”, a 1968 film that inspired Anger to create his Chinese box-style storyboard.
Do yourself a favor and go full-screen with this one. And if you’re unfortunate enough to not be familiar with Anger, do yourself another favor and click one or both of the links below. You’ll be glad you did.
By Eakins
We have spoken at length about Kenneth Anger with the producer of this film, Brian Butler, on our show. Check the interview here.
Comments
Protip: never hurry an article – ‘fasion’ lol
And I didn’t say a word. I must be getting old.