Thursday, September 17, 2015, 8:00 pm, $7-$10
Through an off-beat mixture of myth, biography, docu-fable, collage and fantasy, I WILL BE CALLED LUCIFER is an exploded narrative which converges the many lives of Lucifer with the now-mythic story of filmmaker Kenneth Anger’s troubled production LUCIFER RISING. Featuring a cast of characters portrayed by their personal fantasies, (including Faust as Jimmy Page and a portrayal of Charles Manson by his big-screen hero Dennis Hopper,) the stories of Anger’s doomed production are paralleled by stories of the archetypal scapegoat, Azazel, as he crosses centuries and changes identities, inhabiting some of our most ostracized cultural figures. Robert Oppenheimer, the Femme Fatale, Dante’s Satan, Marilyn Monroe and others surface under Azazel in an experimental film which explores the consequences of seeking truth in archetypal narratives. Directed by Anthony Buchanan (in person), 80 min.
Anthony Buchanan is a filmmaker and internationally-published scholar of underground and experimental film. His films investigate–and interrogate–simulated narratives and myths embedded within objects, spaces, popular culture, literature and various media. Buchanan has taught at Santa Fe University and guest-lectured at CU Boulder and has freelance-lectured on topics such as the “History of the Occult in World Cinema” and “Paracinema in Performance,” and his essays on found footage and deconstructionist experimental film have been published in Abraxas Journal and Otherzine. He has shown work in numerous New Mexico and Colorado venues and spearheaded the Denver-based microcinema Cinema Contra. In addition, he has freelanced as a film and new media critic for the Santa Fe Reporter and the Santa Fe New Mexican.