{"id":14316,"date":"2013-09-21T02:41:53","date_gmt":"2013-09-21T01:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=14316"},"modified":"2013-09-21T02:41:53","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T01:41:53","slug":"my-surfing-lucifer-by-kenneth-anger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/09\/21\/my-surfing-lucifer-by-kenneth-anger\/","title":{"rendered":"My Surfing Lucifer by Kenneth Anger"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One for completists only, My Surfing Lucifer<\/em><\/a> (2009) is one of those recent Kenneth Anger shorts that would receive little attention if we didn’t know the director. Anger’s surfing friend, Bunker Spreckels, is memorialised in a sequence of home movie shots set to the Psychic TV version of Good Vibrations<\/em>. For me the main point of interest is the use of “Lucifer” in the title, here used not in the context of Anger’s favourite angel but in the sense of a more mundane figure worthy of veneration. Putting a mythic frame around something that in other hands would be quite unremarkable connects this piece, however tenuously, to the more substantial productions of the director’s career.<\/p>\n

Anger turned 86 this year, and he’s still keeping busy. His most recent film is another short entitled Airships<\/em>. He talks a little about that here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome: The Eldorado Edition<\/a>
\n\u2022 Brush of Baphomet by Kenneth Anger<\/a>
\n\u2022 Anger Sees Red<\/a>
\n\u2022 Kenneth Anger\u2019s Hollywood Babylon<\/a>
\n\u2022 Lucifer Rising posters<\/a>
\n\u2022 Missoni by Kenneth Anger<\/a>
\n\u2022 Anger in London<\/a>
\n\u2022 Arabesque for Kenneth Anger by Marie Menken<\/a>
\n\u2022 Edmund Teske<\/a>
\n\u2022 Kenneth Anger on DVD again<\/a>
\n\u2022 Mouse Heaven by Kenneth Anger<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Man We Want to Hang by Kenneth Anger<\/a>
\n\u2022 Relighting the Magick Lantern<\/a>
\n\u2022 Kenneth Anger on DVD\u2026finally<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One for completists only, My Surfing Lucifer (2009) is one of those recent Kenneth Anger shorts that would receive little attention if we didn’t know the director. Anger’s surfing friend, Bunker Spreckels, is memorialised in a sequence of home movie shots set to the Psychic TV version of Good Vibrations. For me the main point … Continue reading “My Surfing Lucifer by Kenneth Anger”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[5201,401,461,1577,1988],"class_list":["post-14316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-music","tag-bunker-spreckels","tag-kenneth-anger","tag-lucifer","tag-missoni","tag-psychic-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-3IU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}