The documentary "AngerMe" is now available on DVD for the UK and European markets thanks to the British Film Istitute. The British cultural institution has published Kenneth Anger Magick Lantern Cycle, a 2 DVD box set including the complete production of Kenneth Anger's films from 1947 to 1981, as well as "Angerme" by Elio Gelmini, produced by Segnale Digitale and A Few Step Productions which was successfully presented at the 2006 edition of the London Film Festival.

For info and to purchase: http://filmstore.bfi.org.uk/acatalog/info_12869.html

Kenneth Anger Magick Lantern Cycle: 2 Disc Set
Anger, Kenneth
Renowned as the author of the scandalous best-selling book Hollywood Babylon, Kenneth Anger is a legend in this own time. The mythology that has grown around him has many sources, from his involvement with the occult, astrology and the pop world of Mick Jagger, Marianne Faithfull and Jimmy Page, to the announcement of his own death in the pages of the Village Voice, and the destruction, loss and banning of his films. At the heart of all this mythology is a filmmaker of prodigious talent, whose skill and imagination create films of great visual force, influencing filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese, David Lynch and RW Fassbinder.

Disc one:
* Fireworks (1947)
* Puce Moment (1949)
* Rabbit's Moon (1950/1971, the rarely seen 16mins version)
* Eaux d'Artifice (1953)
* Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954)
* Scorpio Rising (1964)
* Kustom Kar Kommandos (1965)
* Invocation of My Demon Brother (1969)
* Rabbit's Moon (1979 version)
* Lucifer Rising (1981)

Disc two:
* Anger Me (2006) - Elio Gelmini documentary on Kenneth Anger produced by Segnale Digitale & A Few Step Productions.

 
 

 

Segnale Digitale and A Few Step Productions present the DVD version of the documentary Anger Me, directed by Elio Gelmini. Its theme is Kenneth Anger (1930), independent filmmaker, and his extraordinary filmmaking. Anger Me, produced by "Segnale Digitale" and "A Few Step Productions", in collaboration with the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council, will be presented on this dvd together with some extra documents, such as images of Anger returning to Cefalù, some of his memories and stories on his adventures in Sicily and numerous unpublished excepts from the interview in Toronto for the documentary.

The canadian version of the documentary is available thanks to Ron Mann's "Filmswelike" (http://www.filmswelike.com/) and soon will be on the market the american version produced by Frameline (http://www.frameline.org) and an english version by BFI (http://www.bfi.org.uk/).

 
 

"The Chiapas Collection" consists in the one dvd edition of all video works by SEGNALE DIGITALE and A FEW STEPS PRODUCTIONS, from the middle nineties until 2000, pointed on analysis and testimonies about the realization and denunciation of the bad life conditions for indios of Chiapas, Mexico. 

 "Esto es Chiapas", a documentary which has been realised between 1995 and 1997, springs out of two long and difficult research and documentation trips in Chiapas and reports the overstanding of 1994, showing points of view, problems, real life and motivations of the indios from Chiapas, live and directly by the voices of the indios themselves, by the interviews of the writer Oscar Oliva and Juan Banuelos , and also by the testimonies of EZLN commanders and Subcommander Marcos.

"Asesinados" is a documentation and protestation video and at the same time a strong act of denounciation towards the State of Mexico, his representatives and executors in the Chiapas area.

"Let's talk about politics" is an experimental movie produced in Mexico in 1996 with the partecipation of Steven Brown; it shows an hypothetical and metaphorical meeting between the opposing delegations of the ethnic group of the indios, and the improbable representatives of an hypothetic south american country.