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Performance Director: Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg, Country: United Kingdom, Release: 1970, Runtime: 105m Mick Jagger as Turner puts it so well: “The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness.” Who did what behind the camera? Neither Cammell nor his co-director Nicolas Roeg would ever tell, but Cammell has admitted that Anger and his cinema were major influences (Genet, Artaud and Borges weren’t far behind). The set of Performance was reportedly as combustive and fractured as the finished product, driving Jagger further into decadent superstardom and co-star James Fox away from acting and into the arms of evangelism for 10 years. “The first time you see Performance,” wrote Chris Chang in Film Comment, “it is a shock to the system. It attacks mercilessly with a barrage of jaggedly discontinuous images and information...The veil of randomness parts and reveals obvious order, which, in turn, crumbles once you’ve grasped it.” Judged as “indescribably sleazy” by John Simon, one of the greatest films ever made by Paul Schrader, and the greatest British film ever made by Colin MacCabe. Let’s leave the last word to Marianne Faithfull: “A film that preserves a whole era under glass.” preceded by Lucifer Rising Director: Kenneth Anger, Country: USA, Release: 1972, Runtime: 29m In 1967, the better part of the original Lucifer Rising was stolen (allegedly by Bobby Beausoleil). Anger, after declaring his own death, took the remaining footage and crafted his remarkable “war film” Invocation of My Demon Brother. The reconstituted Lucifer Rising was then shot over many years on many locations. Lucifer, played by the director, is restored to his original place as the Lord of Light. Cammell plays Osiris, the God of Death, and his scenes were shot in Egypt, with Myriam Gibril as Isis and Marianne Faithfull as Lilith. The story behind the film’s soundtrack, originally to be done by Jimmy Page but finally completed in jail by Bobby Beausoileil, is now the stuff of legend. As Anger related to Pip Chodorov in The Brooklyn Rail: “Bobby Beausoleil, who’s a talented musician, composed the original score for Lucifer Rising. Around this time he fell into an unfortunate criminal episode and ended up with a life sentence in prison after being on death row for a while. I got permission to film him in a California prison, with 12 other criminals who were talented musicians. They were all basically in there for things like serious drug busts and so forth. And it was arranged by the head psychiatrist of the prison system, a wonderful woman named Dr. Minerva Bertholt, and she said it was better that they be playing music than rioting.”

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