Lucifer Rising (1972)
Director: Kenneth Anger – Assistant Camera Operator: Michael Cooper , Alistair Londonderry – Music: Bobby Beausoleil & The Freedom Orchestra (Tracy Prison) - Production: Kenneth Anger - Country: United States – Running Time: 29'
Cast: Miriam Gibril (Isis), Donald Cammel (Osiris), Haydn Couts (Adept), K. Anger (The Magus), Sir Francis Rose (Chaos), Marianne Faithfull (Lilith), Leslie Huggins (Lucifer)
The film:
"Lucifer Rising is my answer to Scorpio Rising* which was the mirror of death in front of the American Culture. I had to give an answer for myself, even if it is an answer to the American middle class culture. Lucifer Rising is a film about the generation of love, but going deep – like in the fourth dimension."
* [http://www2.museocinema.it/restauri/sonori_restaurati.php?id=36&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. 88]
The film restoration:
The preservation of Lucifer Rising 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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