The Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome 1954
- Part of The Magick Lantern Cycle
The Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome Director : Kenneth Anger
The Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome Plot
Lord Shiva wakes. A convocation of magicians in the guise of figures from mythology; a masquerade party at which Pan is the prize. The wine of Hecate is poured: Pan's cup is poisoned by Shiva. Kali blesses the assembly as a bacchic rite ensues.
The Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome Cast
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as Lord Shiva / Osiris / Nero / The Great Beast -
as The Scarlet Woman / Kali -
as Aphrodite -
as Isis -
as Lilith (as Renata Loom) -
as Astarte -
as Pan -
as Cesare / Slave / Sleep-walker -
as Hecate -
as Ganymede
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Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome is a 38-minute short film by Kenneth Anger, filmed in 1954.[1] Anger created two other versions of this film in 1966 and the late 1970s. According to him, the film takes the name "pleasure dome" from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's atmospheric poem "Kubla Khan". Anger was inspired to make the film after attending a Halloween party called "Come as your Madness".[2] The film has gained cult film status.[3]
Earlier prints of the film had sequences that were meant to be projected on three different screens, an idea inspired in part by Abel Gance's Napoléon (1927 film). The three-screen version was shown at the Brussels World's Fair.[4] Anger subsequently re-edited... |
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