Kenneth Anger, the transgressive creator of 'Scorpio Rising,' had an influence — on movies, on popular culture — too staggering to measure.

Kenneth Anger, the avant-garde filmmaker whose surrealistic queer compositions Fireworks and Scorpio Rising made him a pioneer of underground cinema and a target for censorship, has died. He was 96.

Back in the United States in the 1960s, Mr. Anger entered a productive phase that resulted in some of his most admired works. “Scorpio Rising,” one of the best-known experimental movies of all ...

Kenneth Anger, a leading figure in underground cinema who brought homoeroticism to the screen in the celebrated short films “Fireworks” and “Scorpio Rising” and whose techniques influenced ...

Most artists, if they’re lucky, invent one thing. But Kenneth Anger, who was a filmmaker, an author, a debauched aristocratic scenester and, to the day of his death at 96 (he reportedly died May ...

Kenneth Anger, the experimental filmmaker, actor and author who directed nearly 40 short films, including the homoerotic “Fireworks” and “Scorpio Rising,” has died, according to the ...

The attention paid to Scorpio Rising and subsequent Anger shorts brought him into the orbits of a younger, hipper crowd of bad boys and girls, including the Rolling Stones, Marianne Faithfull ...

Kenneth Anger, the avant-garde filmmaker whose surrealistic queer compositions Fireworks and Scorpio Rising made him a pioneer of underground cinema and a target for censorship, has died. He was 96.