A woman dressed in an elegant period dress wanders through the water gardens at the Villa d'Este.

A landmark of both experimental and queer filmmaking, Kenneth Anger’s film is a bizarre, disturbing dreamscape of violation, rape, and homoerotic sadomasochism.

Director Toshio Matsumoto’s shattering, kaleidoscopic masterpiece is one of the most subversive and intoxicating films of the late 1960s: a headlong dive into a dazzling, unseen Tokyo night-world of drag queen bars and fabulous divas, fueled by booze, drugs, fuzz guitars, performance art and black mascara.

This groundbreaking, award-winning film “about who lesbian mothers and their children really are” portrays the diversity of experience, race and class among eight families and their challenges with custody, the children's fathers and the courts.

Historical, biblical, and mythical characters gather in the pleasure dome and become part of a visual feast of superimposed images, hallucinations, and decadence.

Experimental short, featuring strobe-like homoerotic imagery with several shots of the Rolling Stones in performance and an original synthesizer score by Mick Jagger.

Program I of Kenneth Anger's Magick Lantern Cycle contains Fireworks, Rabbit's Moon, Eaux d'artifice, and Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome.

Program II of Kenneth Anger's Magick Lantern Cycle contains Kustom Kar Kommandos, Scorpio Rising, Invocation of My Demon Brother, Puce Moment, and Lucifer Rising.

A man in tight jeans buffs his car to the strains of "Dream Lover."

Kenneth Anger’s Lucifer Rising (1972–1981) is a cinematic invocation of myth, magick, and cosmic rebellion. More than a film, it is a ceremonial transmission — summoning archetypes, planetary forces, and the eternal return of the Morning Star.

The notorious pirate ruler Madame X places a print ad, calling on women to escape their boring lives and promising “gold, love and adventure” to all who come aboard her ship, the Orlando. A motley crew including a housewife, diva and artist (played by Yvonne Rainer) embark on a quest for self-transformation...

Two men meet in Milan for 48 hours. They met for the first time, elsewhere. The voice-over speaks of this first weekend and the images are those of the second. The film brings them together and goes beyond them to evoke a city and a passion.

Jim, a gay teacher in a London comprehensive school, lives the classic double life: straight days in school, gay nights in bars and discos. With each new pick-up the same tension and uncertainty arises: is there any­ thing more to gay life than the one night stand?

Animation of photos and paper cut outs from a hike at Machu Pichu in Peru.

A soundtrack plays folk rock as a woman prepares, at noon, to take her Borzois for a walk. She goes through her dresses, all 1920s style flapper gowns, holding them one at a time, shaking them as if they are dancing.

Pierrot waxes romantic, entranced by the moon. Harlequin appears and bullies him, then uses a magic lantern to project an image of Columbine. Pierrot tries to court the illusory Columbine unsuccessfully, then enters a mystical moon-realm from which he returns dead.

Scorpio Rising stars Bruce Byron as Scorpio. Loosely structured around a prominent soundtrack of 1960s pop music, it follows a group of bikers preparing for a night out.

Taste the divine on the lips of lovers Savor the divine on the thighs of friends Cherish the divinity that explodes your orgasm Love one another and fly. The love shaman calls for a sexual revolution of the body politic urging mankind into a new love age.

In this big-budget rock-and-roll fable, two adolescent girls — tough, street-wise Nicky (Robin Johnson) and timid, intellectual Pamela (Trini Alvarado) — meet and give each other the courage to follow their different destinies.