| Fireworks |
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| Directed by |
Kenneth Anger |
| Starring |
Kenneth Anger |
| Distributed by |
Mystic Fire Video (DVD) |
| Release date(s) |
1947 |
| Running time |
20 min. |
| Country |
USA |
Fireworks (1947) is a homoerotic experimental film by Kenneth Anger. Filmed in his parents' Beverly Hills, California home over a long weekend while they were away, the film stars Anger and explicitly explores themes of homosexuality and sado-masochism.[1] It is the earliest of his works to survive.
Anger synopsizes the film thus: "A dissatisfied dreamer awakes, goes out in the night seeking a `light' and is drawn through the needle's eye. A dream of a dream, he returns to bed less empty than before." Adding later, "This flick is all I have to say about being seventeen, the United States Navy, American Christmas, and the Fourth of July."[2]
Anger was arrested on obscenity charges following the release of Fireworks. The case went to the California Supreme Court which declared the film to be art.[3]
Notes
- ^ Hoberman et. al. p. 55
- ^ Smith, Claiborne K.H. "Kustom Film Kommando: Interview With Filmmaker Kenneth Anger", Austin Chronicle, 1997-10-30. Retrieved on 2008-04-10.
- ^ Frye, Brian L. "Angry Young Man", The Stranger, 2007-04-24. Retrieved on 2008-02-25.
References
Hoberman, J. and Jonathan Rosenbaum (1983). Midnight Movies. New York, Harper & Row. ISBN 0060909900 (paperback edition).
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Don't Smoke That Cigarette (2000) • The Man We Want to Hang (1995-2002) • Anger Sees Red (2004) • Elliott's Suicide (2004) • Mouse Heaven (1986) • Ich Will! (2000-2007)
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Who Has Been Rocking My Dreamboat (1941) • Tinsel Tree (1941-1942) • Prisoner of Mars (1942) • The Nest (1943) • Escape Episode (1944-46) • Drastic Demise (1945) • The Love That Whirls (1949) • Maldoror (1951-1952) • Le Jeune Homme et la Mort (1953) • Thelema Abbey (1955) • Histoire d'O (1959-1961)• Senators in Bondage (1976)
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