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Kustom Kar Kommandos
Kustom Kar Kommandos is a 1965 experimental film by Kenneth Anger. The 3-minute short features panning shots of a young man (Sandy Trent) buffing a customized hot rod in front of an amorphous pink background, to the tune of "Dream Lover" by The Paris Sisters. Imagery and the choice of camera angles imply an intense eroticism.
Production of the film was funded by a $10,000 grant from the Ford Foundation to Anger following the completion of his biker-themed film "Scorpio Rising".
symbolising semen), pouring over the protagonist's body. Similar homoerotic imagery is found in "Scorpio Rising" (1963), which stars a muscled, topless, leather-clad biker, and "Kustom Kar Kommandos" (1965), where a young man sensually polishes a car, with close up shots of his tight-fitting jeans and crotch. Images of naked men also appear in "Invocation of My Demon Brother" (1969), where they are eventually filmed wrestling, and in "Anger Sees Red