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Fireworks

1947

Directed by Kenneth Anger

A dissatisfied dreamer awakes, goes out in the night seeking a 'light' and is drawn through the needle's eye. A dream of a dream, he returns to bed less empty than before.

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Kenneth Anger Gordon Gray Bill Seltzer

Alternative Titles

Фейерверк, 烟火, 花火, 煙花

Genre

Horror

Premiere

15 Jun 1949

France Festival du Film Maudit

17 Apr 2005

Argentina Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema

09 Jan 2006

Hong Kong French Cinepanorama Film Festival

19 Apr 2006

Hong Kong Hong Kong International Film Festival

18 Mar 2021

Spain Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival

Theatrical limited

04 May 2009

Portugal

Theatrical

31 Dec 1947

10 Oct 1969

Denmark

27 Oct 2022

Argentina

17 Apr 2005

Premiere Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema

Denmark

10 Oct 1969

Theatrical

France

15 Jun 1949

Premiere Festival du Film Maudit

Hong Kong

09 Jan 2006

Premiere French Cinepanorama Film Festival

19 Apr 2006

Premiere Hong Kong International Film Festival

Portugal

04 May 2009

Theatrical limited Cinemateca Portuguesa

Spain

18 Mar 2021

Premiere Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival

USA

31 Dec 1947

Theatrical Los Angeles, California

27 Oct 2022

Theatrical Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

14 mins More at IMDb TMDb Report this page

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Review by Evan “Raymond Gun-Virus” Pincus ★★★★★ 4

I know directors who use subtext and they’re all cowards.
Review by nathaxnne [hiatus] ★★★★★ 2

BLOOD AND SEMEN AND FIRE AND LIGHT AND KNOWLEDGE AND DESIRE AND DESIRE DOUSED AND DESIRE CONSUMMATED
WHAT IS DESIRED IS WHAT CAN DESTROY WHAT CAN DESTROY CAN ENGENDER DESIRE
WHAT CAN BURN CAN ALSO CLAIM AND WARM AND ILLUMINATE
WHAT CAN ILLUMINATE CAN TERRIFY AND CAN BRING FORTH WHAT WAS HIDDEN IN THE DEPTHS
DESIRE CONSUMMATED IS FIRE, IS RADIANCE
DESIRE IN CONSUMMATION WILL CONSUME DESIRE
THE LAST STAGE OF DESIRE IS ASHES
DESIRE RISES EVERY MORNING FROM THE DARKNESS, FROM THE ABYSS, SHINING, FLARING, MOUNTING TOWARD APEX
THE BROKEN MIDDLE FINGER RESTORED
ALL HAIL LUCIFER THE LIGHT-BRINGER
ALL HAIL KENNETH ANGER
Review by Ellen Andrews ★★★★

A guy lights another guy's CIGARETTE using a flaming BUNDLE OF STICKS. I think this is called 'symbolism'.
Review by Sally Jane Black

I have remarked before that Anger's work falls either into the mystic camp or the homoerotic camp. This is firmly in the latter, with fireworks as a fairly blatant metaphor for sexual expression (which both a euphemism and not). It's worth it for the eye candy, if that's your thing, and it's, of course, impressive to see this kind of imagery in 1947.
Review by Evan “Raymond Gun-Virus” Pincus ★★★★½

The claim that this was made in 1947 feels like an elaborate hoax- this thing is decades ahead of it's time, that is, if we've even caught up with it today. Homoerotic is perhaps too subtle a term. Anger is a genius.
Review by Will Sloan

Out of the Past. Monsieur Verdoux. Nightmare Alley. King Size Canary. Lady from Shanghai. Fireworks. Lot of interesting tremors being felt on the edges of American cinema in 1947.
Review by Liz ★★★★★

The fantasy of the beefcake layout, the smoldering violence hiding just under the clean surface made flesh through an eruption of sparks and semen, then printed onto celluloid to inspire countless more fantasies. Pure eroticism.
Review by Brian Formo ★★★★½

HOW ON EARTH WAS THIS 1947?
the blood being pulled from the nostrils.
the shower of semen.
the roman candle cock.
Kenneth Anger came from the future.
and he took no prisoners.
{I am watching a number of Kenneth Anger films for week 10's prompt of Film School Dropouts; Prompt: Movement - Avant Garde - The Second Wave}
Review by Jude ★★★★

faggy
Review by comrade_yui ★★★★★ 1

kenneth anger's sublime psychodrama of magick ritual; the actualization of unconscious desire through means of occult manipulation, dreaming reality into existence, wielding myth as a divine weapon, the internal and external musculature of the human species. queer as hell, gay as fuck, in satan's name, AVE BABALON! ⛧⛧⛧⛧⛧
Review by Edgar Cochran ✝️ ★★★★★

And so, underground cinema is inaugurated with Anger's visionary and "Buñuelian" homoerotic masterpiece heavy on the symbolisms and on the subjects of repression and personal suffering. Voilá.
98/100
Review by rodrigo ★★★★★ 4

how the hell was this made in the 40s? the blood, the gore, the cum, the full on obvious gay subtext?? incredible stuff