Rabbit's Moon [SEP] director
Rabbit's Moon
Rabbit's Moon is an avant-garde short film by American filmmaker Kenneth Anger. Filmed in 1950, "Rabbit's Moon" was not completed (nor did it see release) until 1972. Anger re-released the film in 1979, sped up and with a different soundtrack.
Filmed under a blue filter and set within a wooded glade during the night, the plot revolves around a clown, Pierrot, his longing for the moon (in which a rabbit lives – a concept found in
France, "Rabbit's Moon" and "Eaux d'Artifice".
In 1950, Anger moved to Paris, France, where he initially stayed with friends of his (who themselves had been forced to leave Hollywood after being blacklisted for formerly having belonged to trade union organisations). He would later remark that he travelled to the country after receiving a letter from the French director Jean Cocteau in which he told Anger of his admiration for "Fireworks" (shown in 1949 at Festival du Film Maudit in Biarritz, France)