A journal by artist and designer John Coulthart.
Tenjo Sajiki was an avant-garde theatre troupe led by Shuji Terayama from 1967 to 1983. The name of the troupe is taken from the Japanese title of Marcel Carné’s Les Enfants du Paradis, a film I happened to be watching again this weekend. Terayama is known more in the West for his cinematic work than … Continue reading “Directions to Servants by Tenjo Sajiki”
Kenneth Anger, Topanga Canyon (composite with Gustave Doré engraving) (1954) by Edmund Teske. The other day…I had a date with Tom Luddy at a New York hotel in the East Fifties to meet Kenneth Anger, the genius who made Scorpio Rising and whose New York flat is a shrine to Valentino. Michael Powell, from A … Continue reading “Kenneth Anger, 1927–2023”
Here’s a rare thing: Kenneth Anger’s programme (PDF) for a Spring Equinox screening of his films in New York in 1966, an event that saw the first public appearance of Magick Lantern Cycle as a collective title. This small publication is described at some length by Bill Landis in the unauthorised Anger biography, while the … Continue reading “Anger Magick Lantern Cycle, 1966”
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—The Man We Want to Hang, Mouse Heaven, Anger Sees Red, My Surfing Lucifer—or 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”
Hommage au Marquis de Sade (1959) by Jean Benoît. From A Dictionary of Surrealism (1974) by José Pierre: BENOÎT Jean (Quebec, 1922). In Paris, 1949, he undertook a strange enterprise called The Execution of the Testament of the Marquis de Sade which kept him busy for two years. It is a very complicated costume, made … Continue reading “The Execution of the Testament of the Marquis de Sade by Jean Benoît”