Ross Lipman in Person

Ross Lipman is an independent filmmaker and film restorationist at the UCLA Film and Television Archive.

Cult icon Kenneth Anger is a unique figure in film history in that his works show a deep investment in both Hollywood and avant-garde cinema, and are celebrated in fine-art contexts as well as the low-budget underground. The restorationist approaching his films faces the challenge of simultaneously addressing all these distinct legacies. The challenge is heightened by Anger's careful but varying use of color, his emulation of silent film techniques, his technical experimentations, and his use of pirated recordings. This screening presents new 35mm prints of four of Anger's most famous films: Fireworks, Rabbit's Moon, Scorpio Rising, and Kustom Kar Kommandos. Ross Lipman, who restored the films, will also present an illustrated lecture detailing how each title's complex production history played an integral role in its preservation, including a discussion of Anger's career-long fascination with revising his older works.