🎥 Fringe Flicks: Kenneth Anger’s Lucifer Rising + Experimental Short Films
Join us for another wild, surreal, and subversive night of cinema as Fringe Flicks returns to DoES Liverpool on Friday, 4th April 2025.
This edition features Kenneth Anger’s Lucifer Rising (1972), a psychedelic invocation of myth and magic, alongside a curated selection of experimental short films from around the world, blending cosmic horror, dark satire, and surreal humour.
📅 Date: Friday, 4th April 2025
📍 Location: DoES Liverpool, The Tapestry, 68-76 Kempston St, Liverpool, L3 8HL
🎟️ Tickets: FREE (donations welcome) – Reserve your ticket here
📩 Booking Enquiries: peopleversustv@gmail.com
🎬 Feature Film: Lucifer Rising (1972) – Kenneth Anger
A hallucinatory, hypnotic film ritual, Lucifer Rising is one of the defining works of underground cinema. Kenneth Anger’s esoteric vision of cosmic forces, ancient mythologies, and spiritual transformation unfolds through striking occult imagery and symbolic performances. Shot across dramatic landscapes, from Egyptian temples to volcanic craters, the film immerses viewers in a trance-like meditation on rebellion, renewal, and transcendence.
With a legendary soundtrack by Bobby Beausoleil, Lucifer Rising is an icon of avant-garde cinema, blending mysticism and countercultural energy into a hypnotic experience.
🎥 Full Short Film Lineup
Alongside Lucifer Rising, we’ll be screening a selection of bold, surreal, and boundary-pushing short films from international filmmakers:
- Compulsory Conscription (Iran, Abbas Tahaie) – A group of children, forcibly enlisted as soldiers, return years later to reclaim their space.
- Deaf Orphans of Streamcast (US, Zazie Kanwar-Torge) – A neo-surrealist visual journey, colliding maximalist interiors with the vast, open road.
- Deep Space Laika (Mexico, Rodrigo Alonso Reyes Fabre) – The first dog in space embarks on an existential voyage beyond the known universe.
- Dream Code (US, Narottama Panitz) – A pixel-art autobiography, blurring the lines between gaming, memory, and simulation.
- Principito (Spain, Yann Gil) – A darkly comic, surreal take on childhood, where a boy’s toys vanish into a black hole, returning as eerie adult objects.
- Snakes & Ladders (Iran, Mostafa Rostampour & Atefeh Rezayan) – A twisted game of fate, where a child becomes a pawn in forces beyond their control.
- Vasomotor Rhinitis (Georgia, Mikheil Gabaidze) – A Chekhov-inspired, darkly absurd story where a simple sneeze spirals into disaster.
- Yesterday I Found… (Poland, Kinga Klajbor) – An animated, surreal reimagining of everyday objects, turning the mundane into the unexpected.
📢 Plus, the Audience Choice Award returns! Vote for the film that made the biggest impact—whether it left you laughing, unsettled, or completely speechless.
🎨 Special Edition Poster by Rhonda Davies
A limited-edition, hand-crafted screen-printed poster for Lucifer Rising will be available on the night, designed by Liverpool artist Rhonda Davies and printed at Liverpool Community Print Station.
🍿 What to Expect at Fringe Flicks
- ✔ Feature Film: Lucifer Rising (1972) by Kenneth Anger
- ✔ Short Film Selection: A mix of cosmic horror, surreal comedy, and cinematic chaos
- ✔ Audience Choice Award: Vote for your favourite film of the night
- ✔ Exclusive Poster Release: Limited-edition print by Rhonda Davies
- ✔ Drinks & Raffle: Enjoy donation-based snacks, refreshments, and prizes
🎟️ Spaces are limited—reserve your free ticket now! → Reserve your ticket here
📩 Booking Enquiries: peopleversustv@gmail.com