Technikolor Skull - Anger/Liars

On the 30th of April 2008, Kenneth Anger will present two new works at the Donaufestival in Austria. First up is the world premiere of his highly anticipated feature film Ich Will! (I want!) followed by the audiovisual live-performance project Technikolor Skull which features Liars and other special guests.

If there is one person who has anticipated the 20th and 21st century in pictures, if there is anyone who has created the essences for the icons of our time, then it has to be the film maker, author and provocateur Kenneth Anger. Since the age of 11, he has been producing films that turn conventional viewing and reception habits upside down. Under the influence of the occult world of Aleister Crowley, laden worlds of dream images have been created whose cut-rhythms have equally captured and created the world post-1945. The revolutionary use of music in his underground films makes him the father of video clips, collaborations with Mick Jagger, Jimmy Page or Bobby Beausoleil are the starting point of his influence on pop culture that triggers an immense network of references, from subcultures to mainstream. Legendary films like Fireworks, Scorpio Rising, Inauguration Of The Pleasure Dome or Lucifer Rising not only make him an idol and the precursor of directors like Jean Cocteau, Stan Brakhage, Derek Jarman, David Lynch, Rainer Werner Fassbinder or Martin Scorsese, but also a formative figure of the imagery of the queer movement. His Hollywood Babylon books on the other hand, tabloid-style exposés about the darker side of Hollywood-society, anticipate the star cult phenomenon of the late 20th century and become international bestsellers within a short period of time.



Ich Will! is a study of the Hitler Youth - the Jugend. It´s a visual poem in which I make a parallel between the Hitler Jugend and the Wandervogel movement which preceded it. It´s all a case of male bonding and exploiting it for good or bad. Just kids going out and sleeping in the forest and hiking - that sort of thing. Of course I have an ironic twist on it.
Kenneth Anger