''Invocation of My Demon Brother'' (1969) is an 11-minute film directed, edited, and photographed by

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. The music was composed by

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playing a

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. It was filmed in San Francisco at the Straight Theater on Haight Street and the

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(the former "Russian Embassy" nightclub). According to Anger, the film was assembled from scraps of the first version of '' Lucifer Rising''. It includes clips of the cast smoking out of a skull, and the publicly filmed Satanic funeral ceremony for a pet cat. ''Invocation of My Demon Brother'' won the Tenth Annual ''

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'' award. Author

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claims that the film "inaugurat dthe

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cult at the

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." Lachman, Gary (2001). '' Turn Off Your Mind: The Mystic Sixties and the Dark Side of the Age of Aquarius'' (New York: Disinformation). , p. 305.

Cast

* Speed Hacker as Wand bearer * Kenneth Anger as Magus *

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as Deaconess * Bill "Sweet William" Fritsch as Deacon * Van Leuven as Acolyte *

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and Timotha Doane (formerly Bialy) as the Brother and Sister of the Rainbow * Anton LaVey as His Satanic Majesty *

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as Lucifer *

as Himself

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Magick in Theory and Practice: Ritual Use of Colour in Kenneth Anger's ''Invocation of My Demon Brother''
1969 films Mick Jagger Films about Satanism American short films Films directed by Kenneth Anger Films shot in San Francisco 1960s English-language films 1960s American films {{short-film-stub

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