{"id":19888,"date":"2020-07-10T16:30:22","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T15:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=19888"},"modified":"2020-07-10T18:01:59","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T17:01:59","slug":"dont-smoke-that-cigarette-by-kenneth-anger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2020\/07\/10\/dont-smoke-that-cigarette-by-kenneth-anger\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Smoke That Cigarette by Kenneth Anger"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Another of Kenneth Anger’s post-Magick Lantern<\/em> works at YouTube, and one I’d managed to miss until now. Anger’s later films have tended to be documentative\u2014The Man We Want to Hang<\/em>, Mouse Heaven<\/em>, Anger Sees Red<\/em>, My Surfing Lucifer<\/em>\u2014or collage projects like Ich Will!<\/em>, a cut-up of Nazi propaganda films that was also on YouTube for a while before vanishing into the puce ether.<\/p>\n

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Don’t Smoke That Cigarette<\/em><\/a> (2000) is a long collage piece with none of the director’s usual preoccupations, the raw material this time being propaganda for the US tobacco industry. Anger is apparently a fervent non-smoker so this can be considered a polemical work although it also offers a glimpse for younger generations into a vanished world where almost everybody smoked some kind of tobacco, the advertising was ubiquitous, and dissenting voices very much in the minority. With a running time of 45 minutes this is also Anger’s longest film. The copy at YouTube has the look of a VHS tape that’s been duplicated several times, a degraded appearance familiar from the bootleg tapes that used to circulate in the days of “video nasty” censorship. It also turns into a video nasty of its own when Anger reinforces his message with footage of people afflicted by a variety of nicotine-induced diseases. With Johnny Roventini (the Philip Morris bellboy) as your host for the evening, more tobacco-addicted stars than there are in heaven, and “Electro”, a cigarette-smoking robot.<\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 Kenneth Anger’s Maldoror<\/a>
\n\u2022 Donald Cammell and Kenneth Anger, 1972<\/a>
\n\u2022 My Surfing Lucifer by Kenneth Anger<\/a>
\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":"

Another of Kenneth Anger’s post-Magick Lantern works at YouTube, and one I’d managed to miss until now. Anger’s later films have tended to be documentative\u2014The Man We Want to Hang, Mouse Heaven, Anger Sees Red, My Surfing Lucifer\u2014or collage projects like Ich Will!, a cut-up of Nazi propaganda films that was also on YouTube for … Continue reading “Don’t Smoke That Cigarette 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":"New blog post: Don't Smoke That Cigarette by Kenneth Anger","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],"tags":[10759,401],"class_list":["post-19888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-johnny-roventini","tag-kenneth-anger"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-5aM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19888","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=19888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}