Not bad per se, it even has some creative visual ideas. It just isn't something that interests me.

A highly homoerotic short film that got Anger arrested on obscenity charges. Openly exploring sado-masochism, rape and homosexuality the film starts out nothing amazing and gets better and better, and more overtly bizarre, as it goes on. Feels amateurish but I found it interesting.

Remarkably, frighteningly proficient short. While the cinematography is certainly amateurish, the ideas and other execution certainly isn't.

"The mythical eroticism of sailors is explored using male muscle-bound flesh, violence, rape, and some gore all mixed in a dream sequence full of symbolic imagery like fingerless hands, milk, blood-shooting nostrils, and phallic fireworks."

Archetypal, artful, and amateurish, for better and worse. Its unprecedented homoerotic content secures it an undeniable place in film history.

There are some sparks of inventiveness, and it's kind an interesting film but doesn't quite transcend the fact that this is an early amateurish effort. I do think it's important to Anger's overall body of work.

A masochistic fantasy/dream/nightmare. This is my first experience with Kenneth Anger, and I have to say I'm a little underwhelmed, especially as this seems to be one of his most renowned works. Rather typical experimental film, with a few intriguing ideas but it's almost as if they happened by accident. I can appreciate that it was surely quite radical for its time (both in style and content) but it didn't do much for me.

Early, somewhat amateurish Anger short that hints at later, superior work. A few powerful images but not quite there yet.

The Kenneth Anger, I would love to be my best friend.