Fireworks

Directed by Kenneth Anger

A dissatisfied dreamer awakes, goes out in the night seeking a 'light' and is drawn through the needle's eye. A dream of a dream, he returns to bed less empty than before.
Fireworks is a landmark gay short film whose surrealism, violence and unapologetic homoeroticism remain astonishing for 1947. Kenneth Anger transforms a young man’s desire for sailors into a fever dream of attraction, humiliation and rebellion, using symbolic imagery with extraordinary confidence. The film can be abrasive, but its visual daring and historical importance are impossible to overlook.

Fireworks

Directed by Kenneth Anger

A dissatisfied dreamer awakes, goes out in the night seeking a 'light' and is drawn through the needle's eye. A dream of a dream, he returns to bed less empty than before.

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Fireworks is a landmark gay short film whose surrealism, violence and unapologetic homoeroticism remain astonishing for 1947. Kenneth Anger transforms a young man’s desire for sailors into a fever dream of attraction, humiliation and rebellion, using symbolic imagery with extraordinary confidence. The film can be abrasive, but its visual daring and historical importance are impossible to overlook.