Kenneth Anger filmed Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome at artist Renate Druks’s 1953 “come as your madness” costume party in Hollywood, using vivid color, dramatic lighting, editing, and superimposition to enhance the atmosphere of the trippy ritualistic bacchanal. As Steve Seid wrote, “Luminous Procuress brazenly recounts the mystical passage of two lissome hippie lads who enter a strange mansion, where a magic potion promises glimpses of a transformational realm. Led by the mystical ‘Procuress’ (the ever-sculptural Pandora), the two naïfs are privy to a delirious vision of consciousness unbounded by gender or desire . . . an exotic amalgam of outrageous wearable art, oneiric imagery, and erotically charged tableaux—gloriously drags on.”