Anger's impact on contemporary culture has been profound, with international repercussions: from mainstream and independent filmmakers, contemporary artists, and the music industry. He has created new genres and techniques in filmmaking: improvisation, pastiche, and through default of lack of funding, the music clip, in films such as Scorpio Rising, 1963, Kustom Kar Kommandos, 1965, and Puce Moment, 1949/70, pioneering the most fertile experimental collaborations with contemporary musicians. Those musicians include Mick Jagger (who created the soundtrack for Invocation of My Demon Brother, 1969; Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, and the infamous Bobby Beausoleil who contributed to Lucifer Rising, 1970-80, which also featured Marianne Faithfull. Anger has provided an elegantly subversive alternative to mass cultural representation, and his extraordinary images also serve to some degree as social documentary of the era. Alongside the text by Hutchinson, this publication consolidates English and French text as well as interviews by Anger, alongside commentaries on his work by Stan Brakhage, Anai's Nin, Samson de Brier, Jonas Mekas and Carole Schneemann. The first edition was removed from the market, due to contentious issues surrounding its content; it is now released as the revised edition by popular demand. AUTHOR: Alice Hutchinson is a contemporary art curator and author based in Los Angeles working internationally. She has authored and contributed to artists' books, catalogues and art magazines in the US, UK, Germany, Mexico, New Zealand, Italy and Sweden. She is the Curator at Ace Gallery in Los Angeles. ILLUSTRATIONS: 180 colour tb/w illustrations
