''Lucifer Rising'' is a short film by director
Kenneth Anger
Kenneth Anger (born Kenneth Wilbur Anglemyer, February 3, 1927) is an American underground experimental filmmaker, actor, and author. Working exclusively in short films, he has produced almost 40 works since 1937, nine of which have been grouped ...
. Although virtually completed in 1972, the film was only widely distributed in 1980, after
Bobby Beausoleil
Robert Kenneth Beausoleil (born November 6, 1947) is an American murderer and associate of Charles Manson and members of his communal Manson Family. He was convicted and sentenced to death for the July 27, 1969 fatal stabbing of Gary Hinman, w ...
delivered the finished soundtrack master.
History
Early development: 1966–67
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In mid-1966, Anger began renting a flat on the ground floor of the Westerfeld House, referred to by locals as the
Russian Embassy
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, a dilapidated building located at 1198 Fulton Street in the
Alamo Square
Alamo Square is a residential neighborhood and park in San Francisco, California, in the Western Addition. Its boundaries are Buchanan Street on the east, Turk Street on the north, Baker Street on the west, and Page Street Street on the south.
...
district of
San Francisco
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. Then in his late thirties, Anger began to plan ''Lucifer Rising'', initially intending for it to document the growing
countercultural movement as it existed in
California
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. As Anger stated, he wanted to film "today's new tribe of teenagers, turned-on children – teeny-boppers and adolescent hippies." Anger was influenced by
Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley (; born Edward Alexander Crowley; 12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947) was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, and mountaineer. He founded the religion of Thelema, identifying himself as the pro ...
's descriptions of
Lucifer
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as the light-bearing god, and was inspired by Crowley's poem "Hymn to Lucifer". According to his biographer Bill Landis, Anger adopted this deity as a "metaphor for the ultimate bad little boy who could corrupt you without coercion". In this context, Lucifer is not the devil but a rebellious mythic hero representing the spirit of the artist.
Anger began to search for a young man who could personify Lucifer for the film, and began to bestow the title of "Lucifer" on any young men who would stay with him at the house for more than a few nights. By late 1966, a young musician named
Bobby Beausoleil
Robert Kenneth Beausoleil (born November 6, 1947) is an American murderer and associate of Charles Manson and members of his communal Manson Family. He was convicted and sentenced to death for the July 27, 1969 fatal stabbing of Gary Hinman, w ...
had moved in with Anger, who had declared him to be his Lucifer. Beausoleil later said that he had first met Anger at the Invisible Circus, an event promoted by
The Diggers and The Bay Area Sexual Freedom League at
Glide Memorial Church
Glide Memorial Church is a church in San Francisco, California, formerly a United Methodist Church congregation, which opened in 1930. Since the 1960s, it has served as a counter-culture rallying point, as one of the most prominently liberal chu ...
, who had enlisted Beausoleil's band,
Orkustra, to provide musical accompaniment for a troupe of topless belly dancers. Reportedly, Beausoleil was playing his guitar and licking sweat off a woman's breasts when Anger spotted him, later approaching him to offer a part in the film.
[ Beausoleil has disavowed any claims of his having met Anger in Hollywood in '65 as some have assumed.] As Beausoleil later related:
According to Beausoleil, the agreement that he made with Anger was that, in exchange for his agreement to star in the film, the filmmaker would provide for the young musician's basic needs and would allow him to live at the Embassy, but that he would not be paid for appearing in the film. While staying in Anger's flat, Beausoleil read up on mythology and Thelema from Anger's private library, although he felt that there was tension between them as a result of their different sexualities. Anger was strictly homosexual while Beausoleil was strictly heterosexual, with the latter opining that Anger "kind of resented the girlfriends I had over, but I wouldn't let that stop me – I was young." Beausoleil served as Anger's chauffeur during this period, and together they attended counter-cultural events such as the Human Be-In
The Human Be-In was an event held in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park Polo Fields on January 14, 1967. It was a prelude to San Francisco's Summer of Love, which made the Haight-Ashbury district a symbol of American counterculture a ...
at Golden Gate Park
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in January 1967. During their early conversations, Beausoleil suggested that he could also compose a soundtrack
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for the film, assembling a band to be known as the Magick Powerhouse of Oz in order to do so, largely out of jazz musicians. Anger agreed to the collaboration.
Anger began filming ''Lucifer Rising'' in his typical fragmentary style. Beausoleil expressed frustration, asserting that Anger spent more time talking about the project than actually shooting any film. This early footage starring Beausoleil was instead used in a different film, ''Invocation of My Demon Brother
''Invocation of My Demon Brother'' (1969) is an 11-minute film directed, edited, and photographed by Kenneth Anger. The music was composed by Mick Jagger playing a Moog synthesizer. It was filmed in San Francisco at the Straight Theater on Haight S ...
''.[ One of these scenes featured Anton LaVey, leader of the ]Church of Satan
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and founder of the LaVeyan Satanist movement, whom Anger had met through the California occult scene. Beausoleil, however, thought LaVey to be "a fuckin' jerk". Anger was aided in the early phases of ''Lucifer Rising'' by the filmmaker Richard Patton, who was then residing on the top floor of the Russian Embassy. They developed a friendship, with Patton serving as lighting and camera assistant, later commenting that he learned much about filmmaking from Anger. Anger later noted that he had been frustrated with Beausoleil during the process, stating that "Bobby was fine, except he wanted to dominate. He wanted to direct the film. He was always making too many suggestions." While still in early production, Anger began to produce promotional items for ''Lucifer Rising'', commissioning a poster from Rick Griffin
Richard Alden "Rick" Griffin (June 18, 1944 – August 18, 1991) was an American artist and one of the leading designers of psychedelic posters in the 1960s. As a contributor to the underground comix movement, his work appeared regularly in ...
which incorporated an etching by Gustav Doré, ''Purgatorio'', depicting an eagle lifting up a human body wrapped in cloth. To earn money, he continued producing films for private collectors on the side, which were not released for public distribution.
In September 1967, Beausoleil and Anger presented an event titled the Equinox of the Gods to mark the autumnal equinox. The show was to involve the Magick Powerhouse of Oz playing while Anger pantomimed a magical invocation to the new Luciferian age. Anger took LSD
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before the event;[ it faced various technical problems and was not deemed a success. Relations between Anger and Beausoleil were increasingly strained, and the latter decided to leave the Embassy, later claiming that he only took his own possessions with him. Anger proceeded to inform the ''Berkeley Barb'' underground newspaper that his house had been burgled, and that his camera, props, and footage for ''Lucifer Rising'' had been stolen. He subsequently made the claim that Beausoleil was responsible for the theft of the footage. Beausoleil denied the accusation, stating that Anger had spent all the money on frivolous items, that had been invested in the film and that Anger had simply claimed it was stolen to avoid being punished by his creditors. In October 1967, Anger then posted a full-page advert in the '']Village Voice
''The Village Voice'' is an American news and culture paper, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly. Founded in 1955 by Dan Wolf, Ed Fancher, John Wilcock, and Norman Mailer, the ''Voice'' began as a platform for the creat ...
'' declaring his own death with "IN MEMORIAM. KENNETH ANGER. FILMMAKER 1947–1967". In this, he was imitating Crowley, who had faked his own death in order to drum up interest for an art exhibition, although Anger also told friends that it was a stunt to protest the limited finances that were available to independent filmmakers. Anger then furthered this publicity campaign by arriving at the New York City office of the Film-Makers' Collective and burning dozens of his old films, before returning to San Francisco to appear at the funeral for one of the Church of Satan's parishioners.
Development and filming: 1968–72
In 1968, Anger traveled to Britain, where he looked for potential new financiers for his work. In London
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, he involved himself with the social circle of Robert Fraser and his Indica Gallery
Indica Gallery was a counterculture art gallery in Mason's Yard (off Duke Street), St James's, London from 1965 to 1967, in the basement of the Indica Bookshop. John Dunbar, Peter Asher, and Barry Miles owned it, and Paul McCartney supporte ...
in Mayfair
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, through which he met John Paul Getty, Jr.
Sir Paul Getty (; born Eugene Paul Getty; 7 September 1932 – 17 April 2003), known widely as John Paul Getty Jr., was a British philanthropist and book collector. He was the third of five sons born to J. Paul Getty (1892–1976), one of the ...
, who would become a key patron. It was in this London counter-cultural scene that Anger decided to re-focus ''Lucifer Rising'' away from the Californian scene to embrace a more inter-continental approach. It was also in this circle that Anger met rock band The Rolling Stones
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, becoming friends with lead singer Mick Jagger
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and guitarist Keith Richards
Keith Richards (born 18 December 1943), often referred to during the 1960s and 1970s as "Keith Richard", is an English musician and songwriter who has achieved international fame as the co-founder, guitarist, secondary vocalist, and co-princi ...
, as well as their respective girlfriends Marianne Faithfull
Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull (born 29 December 1946) is an English singer and actress. She achieved popularity in the 1960s with the release of her hit single " As Tears Go By" and became one of the lead female artists during the British I ...
and Anita Pallenberg
Anita Pallenberg (6 April 1942 – 13 June 2017) was a German-Italian actress, artist, and model. A style icon and "It Girl" of the 1960s and 1970s, Pallenberg was credited as the muse of the Rolling Stones: she was the romantic partner of the ...
. Jagger was intrigued by Anger, and realized that occultism had the potential to inspire a counterculture movement. Anger tried to convince Jagger to take on the role of Lucifer for the film, something that tempted the musician. Jagger composed music for the film using a newly acquired Moog synthesizer
The Moog synthesizer is a modular synthesizer developed by the American engineer Robert Moog. Moog debuted it in 1964, and Moog's company R. A. Moog Co. (later known as Moog Music) produced numerous models from 1965 to 1981, and again from 20 ...
, with Anger later stating that "he was great. He did it for me in one night; we just climbed on the same wavelength." However, Jagger's composition would ultimately be used in ''Invocation of My Demon Brother'' rather than ''Lucifer Rising''. He also filmed some footage at a free Rolling Stones concert that was held in Hyde Park
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, which would subsequently be included in ''Invocation of My Demon Brother''. Anger put together that film using footage produced in San Francisco and London over the previous few years, and in August 1969 it was released on the underground film circuit in the U.S., where it attracted much attention and was screened as a midnight movie
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at the New York Elgin Theatre The Elgin Theatre can refer to:
* Elgin Theatre (Ottawa) in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, a former movie cinema that was the first twin cinema in North America
* Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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.
Still based in London, Anger began to propose a Crowley biopic, although nothing came of it. Still seeking to pursue the ''Lucifer Rising'' project, he found a young man named Leslie Huggins to be Lucifer. Although enthusiastic about this new actor, stating that he was "a natural star and absolutely perfect for the part", Huggins soon abandoned the project and Anger. After the disastrous events of the Altamont Free Concert
The Altamont Speedway Free Festival was a counterculture rock concert in the United States, held on Saturday, December 6, 1969, at the Altamont Speedway outside of Livermore, California. Approximately 300,000 attended the concert, and some ant ...
in December 1969, in which a fan brandishing a handgun was killed by Hells Angels
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, Jagger began to distance himself from Anger. Instead, he offered his brother Chris Jagger
Christopher Jagger (born 19 December 1947) is an English musician. He is the younger brother of wikt:rockstar, rock star Mick Jagger, frontman for the Rolling Stones.
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for the role of Lucifer, which Anger accepted. The director Donald Cammell
Donald Seton Cammell (17 January 1934 – 24 April 1996) was a Scottish painter, screenwriter, and film director. He has a cult reputation largely due to his debut film ''Performance'', which he wrote the screenplay for and co-directed wi ...
was cast in the role of the god Osiris
Osiris (, from Egyptian ''wsjr'', cop, ⲟⲩⲥⲓⲣⲉ , ; Phoenician: 𐤀𐤎𐤓, romanized: ʾsr) is the god of fertility, agriculture, the afterlife, the dead, resurrection, life, and vegetation in ancient Egyptian religion. He was ...
. Anger cast British singer Marianne Faithfull
Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull (born 29 December 1946) is an English singer and actress. She achieved popularity in the 1960s with the release of her hit single " As Tears Go By" and became one of the lead female artists during the British I ...
in the role of the goddess Lilith
Lilith ( ; he, Wiktionary:לילית, לִילִית, Līlīṯ) is a female figure in Mesopotamian Mythology, Mesopotamian and Jewish mythology, Judaic mythology, alternatively the first wife of Adam and supposedly the primordial she-demon. ...
, while her brother Chris was hired as photographer, and the Rolling Stones' personal photographer, Michael Cooper
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, was also hired to help with the photography. Anger convinced fashion designer Laura Jameson to create the film's costumes and play the role of a priestess in it.
To attract press attention, Anger arranged a photo shoot at his basement flat, in which a number of other film directors were in attendance, among them Cammell himself, Dennis Hopper
Dennis Lee Hopper (May 17, 1936 – May 29, 2010) was an American actor, filmmaker and photographer. He attended the Actors Studio, made his first television appearance in 1954, and soon after appeared in ''Giant'' (1956). In the next ten years ...
, and Alejandro Jodorowsky
Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky (; born 17 February 1929) is a Chilean-French avant-garde filmmaker.
Best known for his 1970s films '' El Topo'' and '' The Holy Mountain'', Jodorowsky has been "venerated by cult cinema enthusiasts" for his wor ...
. Anger proceeded to film eight minutes of footage in which he played the role of a magus dancing around a magic circle
A magic circle is a circle of space marked out by practitioners of some branches of ritual magic, which they generally believe will contain energy and form a sacred space, or will provide them a form of magical protection, or both. It may be mark ...
; he titled this ''Lucifer Rising, Part I'', and used it to convince the National Film Finance Corporation
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to provide him with £15,000 to complete the rest of the film. This action sparked some controversy in the conservative press, with the ''Sunday Telegraph'' publishing a March 1971 headline of "Devil Film to Get State Aid". With this monetary backing, Anger flew the cast out to both Exernsteine in Germany and Egypt to get more footage for the film, with ''The Evening Standard'' sending a reporter to write an article on their filming in Egypt. On set, Anger repeatedly argued with Chris Jagger, resulting in the latter being fired by the director.
Creating a soundtrack: 1972–1980
Back in London, Anger met Jimmy Page
James Patrick Page (born 9 January 1944) is an English musician who achieved international success as the guitarist and founder of the rock band Led Zeppelin. Page is prolific in creating guitar riffs. His style involves various alternative ...
of the rock band Led Zeppelin
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at an auction where they were both bidding for a piece of Crowley memorabilia. Becoming friends, Page invited the filmmaker to stay at his Scottish house on the banks of Loch Ness
Loch Ness (; gd, Loch Nis ) is a large freshwater loch in the Scottish Highlands extending for approximately southwest of Inverness. It takes its name from the River Ness, which flows from the northern end. Loch Ness is best known for clai ...
, Boleskine House
The Boleskine House ( gd, Taigh Both Fhleisginn) is a manor on the south-east side of Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. It is notable for having been the home of author and occultist Aleister Crowley, and Led Zeppelin guitarist and producer J ...
, which had once belonged to Crowley. Shortly after, Anger convinced Page to compose the soundtrack for ''Lucifer Rising'', with the rock star also giving Anger permission to move into the basement of his London mansion. Anger publicly revealed that Page was to provide the soundtrack in a February 1972 interview with ''Variety'' magazine, in which he erroneously claimed that the film was near completion and announced that Page was involved. Then, in April 1973, he allowed some of the footage for the film to be screened during a public appearance that he made at the State University of New York
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in Buffalo. However, in October 1976, Anger got into an argument with Page's wife Charlotte, who threw him out of their London home. He was able to collect his belongings later that week, subsequently giving a press conference in which he lambasted both Page and his wife, stating that "I'm beginning to think Jimmy's dried up as a musician. He's got no themes, no inspiration, no melodies to offer."
Learning that Page had been removed from the project, Beausoleil wrote to Anger from Tracy Prison (DVI) in California, suggesting that he compose a soundtrack for ''Lucifer Rising'', as they had originally agreed almost a decade earlier. With aid from a prison teacher, he was able to obtain the necessary musical instruments and recording equipment, and formed the Freedom Orchestra, with Anger visiting Tracy Prison to talk with him about the project. Still enthusiastic about ''Lucifer Rising'', to the press
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he no longer claimed that Beausoleil had stolen from him, but instead blamed anonymous youths.
Aleister Crowley associate Gerald Yorke
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is credited as "Thelemic
Thelema () is a Western esoteric and occult social or spiritual philosophy and new religious movement founded in the early 1900s by Aleister Crowley (1875–1947), an English writer, mystic, occultist, and ceremonial magician. The word '' ...
consultant".
Bobby Beausoleil released his 44-minute ''Lucifer Rising'' soundtrack on vinyl LP in 1980, on the fly-by-night Canadian label Lethal Records. Many of the 1000 copies of this initial pressing were sold by Anger at theater screenings of his Magick Lantern Cycle, which always ended with ''Lucifer Rising''. In 2005, Beausoleil reissued the soundtrack, with outtakes that included the 1967 version of the soundtrack in a two-disk CD package on the Arcanum label.
The complete anthology of both versions of the soundtrack he recorded with The Magick Powerhouse of OZ, and all of the project recordings was released on vinyl LP as a four-disk boxed set on the Ajna label, The anthology was reissued by Ajna in a CD version of the boxed set in 2004. Beausoleil spoke of his inspiration for composing the score in his liner notes for the boxed set:
In early 2007, the original single-disk vinyl LP of the ''Lucifer Rising'' soundtrack was reissued (with a fresh mastering by Robert Ferbrache, and new cover art by the Russian art collective Doping-pong) on the Ajna label.
The original Jimmy Page soundtrack was released in 2012 as ''Lucifer Rising and Other Sound Tracks''. Further music was issued as part of his ''Sound Tracks'' box set. Page explained of the latter:
Cast
* Haydn Couts as The Magus #1
* Kenneth Anger
Kenneth Anger (born Kenneth Wilbur Anglemyer, February 3, 1927) is an American underground experimental filmmaker, actor, and author. Working exclusively in short films, he has produced almost 40 works since 1937, nine of which have been grouped ...
as The Magus #2
* Leslie Huggins as Lucifer
* Bobby Beausoleil
Robert Kenneth Beausoleil (born November 6, 1947) is an American murderer and associate of Charles Manson and members of his communal Manson Family. He was convicted and sentenced to death for the July 27, 1969 fatal stabbing of Gary Hinman, w ...
as Himself (not in the film—shots were used in ''Invocation of My Demon Brother'')
* Donald Cammell
Donald Seton Cammell (17 January 1934 – 24 April 1996) was a Scottish painter, screenwriter, and film director. He has a cult reputation largely due to his debut film ''Performance'', which he wrote the screenplay for and co-directed wi ...
as Osiris
* Marianne Faithfull
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as Lilith
* Myriam Gibril as Isis
* Chris Jagger
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Early life, family and education
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as the Man in Yellow Tunic
* Jimmy Page
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as the Man Holding the Stele of Revealing
Critical assessment
Anger biographer Bill Landis described ''Lucifer Rising'' as one of the filmmaker's "most popular and enjoyable films". He would further refer to it as "a religious movie... of the top order", comparing it favourably to the "kitsch
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The avant-garde opposed kitsch as melodramatic and superficial affiliation with ...
" films of that genre such as ''The Ten Commandments
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'' and ''Mohammad, Messenger of God
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''.
He added that the inclusion of the Adept as a character in the film "unlocks the psychodramatic autobiographical element of Anger's moviemaking."
See also
* Hitchcock Estate
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References
Footnotes
Bibliography
*
External links
*
Bobby Beausoleil
on IMDb
Rotten Tomatoes
SECONDS #50, 1999 - Interview with Bobby Beausoleil by Michael Moynihan
* ttp://bobbybeausoleil.com/the-saga-of-a-soundtrack.html Saga of the Soundtrack by Michael Moynihan
Bobby BeauSoleil: Life After Death Row, Making Art and Music Behind Bars, by Adam Kovac
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