Rather astonishing news from the fashion and film world. Dangerous Minds’ fave filmmaker Kenneth Anger has released a two-and-a-half-minute film dealing with the fall/winter collection of the Varese-based house of Missoni, produced by filmmaker/Anger manager/Dangerous Minds pal Brian Butler and scored by French composer Koudlam.

Vogue Italia‘s Mariuccia Casadio provides some details:

A man of few words, this fascinating former actor who still takes care of his appearance first filmed the settings for his film “Missoni”: mostly locations near bodies of water in the Sumirago countryside and part of Rosita and Ottavio’s garden. For the indoor sequences, he built a set in the Council Room of the Sumirago Town Hall, a basement room with a vaulted ceiling. The mood of the film and the poses and movements of Margherita, Jennifer, Angela, Rosita, Ottavio, Ottavio Jr. and all other [Missoni] family members are reminiscent of Sergei Parajanov’s “The Color of Pomegranates”, a 1968 film that inspired Anger to create his Chinese box-style storyboard.

Do yourself a favor and go full-screen with this one. And if you’re unfortunate enough to not be familiar with Anger, do yourself another favor and click one or both of the links below. You’ll be glad you did.
 

 
Get: The Films of Kenneth Anger Vol. 1 [DVD]
 
Get: The Films of Kenneth Anger Vol. 2 [DVD]
 
Thanks to Ian Raikow for the heads-up!

amazing news. im about to watch it right now.. although hes getting on in years (to put it lightly), anger still has that spark. the semi recent ‘mouse heaven’ being evidence of this.

higher quality version here-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxrX2fa1IM0&feature=related

its short but sweet. a solid anger effort.

Really nice piece.  I had the pleasure of seeing Anger & Butler perform recently in New York at a benefit for The Film Archives. Anger was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award.  Well deserved.

What am I missing?  Seems like a cheesy advert crap to me.  And I like me some real Anger but this is just… unfortunate.

It looks to me like he hasn’t really progressed much since the 60’s.
Doing pretty much the same stuff.

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