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Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome and Luminous Procuress

At Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Downtown Berkeley

Step into a ritualistic bacchanal where Hollywood glamour meets occult mysticism. Kenneth Anger's color-drenched Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome captures a 1953 "come as your madness" party, while Steven Arnold's Luminous Procuress follows The Cockettes through a gender-fluid dreamscape of wearable art and erotic tableaux.

Experimental film
Queer cinema history
The Cockettes
Occult aesthetics

Tips

🎭"an exotic amalgam of outrageous wearable art, oneiric imagery and erotically charged tableaux—gloriously drags on" (Steve Seid)
🍿113 minutes total, includes intro by Maria Silk
🎨Anger filmed at artist Renate Druks's actual costume party

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

2155 Center St, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

$18

events.berkeley.edu

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