Invocation to My Demon Brother (1969)
Director: Kenneth Anger - Assistant Camera Operator: Jud Yalkut – Music: Mick Jagger – Production: Kenneth Anger - Country: United States – Running Time: 12’
Cast: Speed Hacker (Wand bearer), Lenore Kandel (Deaconess), William Beutel (Deacon), K. Anger (The Magick), Van Leuven (Acolyte), Harvey Bialy (Brother of the Rainbow), Anton Szandor LaVey (Satan), Bobby Beausoleil (Lucifer)
The film:
"Kenneth Anger had to face many significant difficulties directing Lucifer Rising*. The first protagonist died, the second, Bobby Beausoleil stole most of the material that K. Anger had directed in 1966 in San Francisco (and this misadventure led him to direct Invocation to My Demon Brother)."
* [http://www2.museocinema.it/restauri/sonori_restaurati.php?id=39&l=en]
[Robert A. Heller, Kenneth Anger in Paolo Bertetto (curated by), Il grande occhio della notte. Cinema d’Avanguardia Americano 1920-1990, Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Torino; Lindau, 1993, p. 92]
The film restoration:
The preservation of Invocation to My Demon Brother was realized by the Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino starting from a 16mm positive copy held by the Museum, part of Kenneth Anger’s Magick Lantern Cycle and acquired in 1992 by the director Kenneth Anger.
The preservation, aimed to print an internegative scene and sound with the successive synchronization of the image and sound, made possible the correction of the most evident signs of use of the original elements, the density of the image and, when necessary, of the color.
The work was conducted in 2010 by the laboratory Haghefilm Conservation B.V. Cineco in Amsterdam.
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