RABBIT'S MOON

Rabbit's Moon (original version), filmed in France in 1950. Pierrot tries to obtain the unattainable, the moon. He struggles to bring it to him but cannot. Harlequin appears to entertain Pierrot with sword play, juggling, and dance. Pierrot is distraught, so Harlequin summons his girlfriend, Columbine to help assess the situation. Columbine is a showy babe, Pierrot knows. She's useless for getting the moon for Pierrot. Tired from a hard night's work and mishap, Pierrot gives up.

Rabbit's Moon was re-edited by Anger in 1979. A step-printing of every other frame of the film (this edit being 7 min. vs the original 16 min.) which gives the characters' movements a jerky, "fast-forward" quality, and replacing the original doo-wop soundtrack with the track It Came in the Night by A Raincoat.

Why Rabbit's Moon? The Moon rabbit, also called the Jade Rabbit, is a rabbit that lives on the moon in East Asian folklore. The legends about the moon rabbit are based on the traditional pareidolia that identifies the markings of the moon as a rabbit pounding in a mortar.

In August 2007 Kenneth Anger announced that he is "dying of prostate cancer" and has predicted that his own death will occur on Halloween night 2008.

"I have always considered movies evil; the day that cinema was invented was a black day for mankind. Centuries before photographs there were talismans, which actually anticipated photographs...Photography is a blatant attempt to steal the soul."
- Kenneth Anger

Nota: Ya pronto lo traduciré =P