Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome
Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome is a short 38minute film by Kenneth Anger, filmed in 1954. Anger created two other versions of this film in 1966 and the late 1970s. According to Anger, the film takes the name pleasure dome from Samuel Taylor Coleridges atmospheric poem Kubla Khan. Anger was inspired to make the film after attending a Halloween party called Come as your Madness. The film has gained cult film status.
The film reflects Angers deep interest in Thelema, the philosophy of Aleister Crowley and his followers, as indicated by Camerons role as The Scarlet Woman an honorific Crowley bestowed on certain of his important magical partners.The film uses some footage of the Hell sequence from the 1911 Italian silent film LInferno. Near the end, scenes from Angers earlier film Puce Moment are interpolated into the layered images and faces. ........
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