Lucifer Rising

Lucifer Rising is perhaps Anger's most ambitious work to date; its subject - Lucifer, the fallen angel - has possessed and inspired Anger for a decade. Christian theology views Lucifer as the personification of evil; Anger's task was to depict him as a bringer of light, God's beautiful but rebellious favorite. (...) Edited in a number of forms during the past ten years, Anger's Lucifer Rising has consistently displayed magnificent landscape and seascape cinematography as well as memorable performances by Marianne Faithfull, Anger himself (as the Magus), and prominent members of London's cultural scene. For the expanded edition, however, Anger has recut the entire work, and added a haunting music track recorded behind the walls of Tracy Prison by his original Lucifer, Bobby Beausoleil, now serving a life sentence there.

Anger has called Lucifer Rising "visual music": (...) it awakens ideas and feelings almost without the aid of characters or story. The viewer, like Lucifer, awakens mysteriously, magically to a new vision of the world in which everything is miraculous and strange. (American Federation of the Arts press release)