Rabbit's Moon

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Rabbit's Moon
Directed by Kenneth Anger
Starring Claude Revenant
André Soubeyran
Nadine Valence
Release date(s) 1950, 1979
Running time Short: 7 min.
Country U.S.A.
Language English
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Rabbit's Moon is a short avant-garde film directed by Kenneth Anger in the style of both mime and Kabuki theatre. The title refers to the Japanese myth about a rabbit on the moon. The story focuses on Pierrot trying to obtain the unattainable moon. Harlequin appears and entertains Pierrot with sword play, juggling, and dance. Pierrot remains distraught, so Harlequin summons Columbina to help uplift Pierrot. Although the film was originally made in 1950, two further cuts were created, one in 1972 and another in 1979, both with different soundtracks. The 1979 version soundtrack is the song "It Came in the Night" by A Raincoat, a UK-based band.

The movie is credited by the electronic music act Rabbit in the Moon as inspiration for their name.

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Commedia dell'arte

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Kenneth Anger
Magick Lantern Cycle films
Fireworks (1947) • Puce Moment (1949) • Eaux d'Artifice (1953) • Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954/1966) • Scorpio Rising (1964) • Kustom Kar Kommandos (1965) • Invocation Of My Demon Brother (1969) • Lucifer Rising (1970-1980) • Rabbit's Moon (1950-1979)
Post Cycle Films
Don't Smoke That Cigarette (2000) • The Man We Want to Hang (1995-2002) • Anger Sees Red (2004) • Elliott's Suicide (2004) • Mouse Heaven (1986) • Ich Will! (2000-2007)
Lost and Unfinished Films directed
Who Has Been Rocking My Dreamboat (1941) • Tinsel Tree (1941-1942) • Prisoner of Mars (1942) • The Nest (1943) • Escape Episode (1944-46) • Drastic Demise (1945) • The Love That Whirls (1949) • Maldoror (1951-1952) • Le Jeune Homme et la Mort (1953) • Thelema Abbey (1955) • Histoire d'O (1959-1961)• Senators in Bondage (1976)
Books Written
Hollywood Babylon (1959) • Hollywood Babylon II (1984)
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