Olivier Assayas’s *Éloge de Kenneth Anger* is a critical appreciation of one of the defining figures of American underground and experimental cinema. Written from the perspective of a filmmaker deeply engaged with the history and possibilities of the medium, the book explores Anger’s singular position between avant-garde film, occult imagery, ritual, music, and countercultural cinema. Rather than offering a conventional biography, the work functions as an essayistic tribute, tracing the force of Anger’s films and their influence on later directors, critics, and artists. Assayas emphasizes the intensity of Anger’s visual language, his use of myth and symbol, and his refusal to separate cinema from personal obsession or spiritual inquiry. The book is especially relevant for readers interested in experimental film, film criticism, and the artistic movements that shaped independent cinema in the twentieth century.

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