How Kenneth Anger Created Camp Cinema with His Short Film, ‘Puce Moment’
In his 1949 short film Puce Moment, Kenneth Anger created a new kind of cinema — one that was glitzy, gaudy, queer-coded, and proto-feminist.
In his 1949 short film Puce Moment, Kenneth Anger created a new kind of cinema — one that was glitzy, gaudy, queer-coded, and proto-feminist.
Neurotic New Yorkers, Queer Mavericks, Swedish close-ups and the art of putting a microphone on every person on set are but a few of the themes explored in PopMatters' first group of ten essential directors, Chantal Akerman through Bernardo Bertolucci. Please note that any perceived omissions were likely on purpose...