Invocation of My Demon Brother [SEP] director
Invocation of My Demon Brother
Invocation of My Demon Brother (1969) is an 11-minute film directed, edited, and photographed by Kenneth Anger. The music was composed by Mick Jagger playing a Moog synthesizer. It was filmed in San Francisco at the Straight Theater on Haight Street and the William Westerfeld House (the former "Russian Embassy" nightclub).
According to Anger, the film was assembled from scraps of the first version of "Lucifer Rising". It includes clips of the cast smoking out of a skull
composed music for the film using a newly acquired Moog synthesizer, with Anger later stating that "he was great. He did it for me in one night; we just climbed on the same wavelength." However, Jagger's composition would ultimately be used in "Invocation of My Demon Brother" rather than "Lucifer Rising". He also filmed some footage at a free Rolling Stones concert that was held in Hyde Park, which would subsequently be included in "Invocation of My Demon Brother". Anger put together that