Invocation of My Demon Brother (1969) is an 11-minute film photographed, directed and edited by Kenneth Anger.
Production
Its repetitive noise music soundtrack was composed by Mick Jagger playing a Moog synthesizer. It was filmed in San Francisco at the Straight Theater on Haight Street in Haight-Ashbury and at the William Westerfeld House.
According to Anger; the film, starring Mick Jagger, Manson family member Bobby Beausoleil and Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey, was assembled from scraps of the first version of Lucifer Rising. It includes clips of the cast smoking hashish out of a skull and a Satanic funeral ceremony for a cat.
Reception and legacy
Invocation of My Demon Brother won the Tenth Annual Film Culture award.
Author Gary Lachman claims that the film "inaugurat the midnight movie cult at the Elgin Theatre."
Cast
- 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 Doane (formerly Bialy) as the Brother and Sister of the Rainbow
- Anton LaVey as His Satanic Majesty
- Bobby Beausoleil as Lucifer
- Mick Jagger as himself
See also
References
- 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
- 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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