Fireworks (1947 film)

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Fireworks
Directed by Kenneth Anger
Starring Kenneth Anger
Distributed by Mystic Fire Video (DVD)
Release date(s) 1947
Running time 20 min.
Country USA


Fireworks (1947) is a homoerotic experimental film by Kenneth Anger. Filmed in his parents' Beverly Hills, California home over a long weekend while they were away, the film stars Anger and explicitly explores themes of homosexuality and sado-masochism.[1] It is the earliest of his works to survive.

Anger synopsizes the film thus: "A dissatisfied dreamer awakes, goes out in the night seeking a `light' and is drawn through the needle's eye. A dream of a dream, he returns to bed less empty than before." Adding later, "This flick is all I have to say about being seventeen, the United States Navy, American Christmas, and the Fourth of July."[2]

Anger was arrested on obscenity charges following the release of Fireworks. The case went to the California Supreme Court which declared the film to be art.[3]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Hoberman et. al. p. 55
  2. ^ Smith, Claiborne K.H. "Kustom Film Kommando: Interview With Filmmaker Kenneth Anger", Austin Chronicle, 1997-10-30. Retrieved on 2008-04-10. 
  3. ^ Frye, Brian L. "Angry Young Man", The Stranger, 2007-04-24. Retrieved on 2008-02-25. 

[edit] References

Hoberman, J. and Jonathan Rosenbaum (1983). Midnight Movies. New York, Harper & Row. ISBN 0060909900 (paperback edition).

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