los angeles underground interview with KENNETH ANGER interview by OLIVIER ZAHM and BRIAN BUTLER photography by OLIVIER ZAHM Experimental filmmaker, actor, and writer Kenneth Anger filmed the homoeroticism, occultism, phantasmagoria, glamour, demons, and ghosts through a seemingly surrealist lens. Short films like Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome and Scorpio Rising would influence filmmakers Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, and John Waters. His book Hollywood Babylon was about scandal and created a scandal itself. An underground legend, he’s described himself as pagan, yet he is a softspoken one. An extremely private person, he is clearly open to what the dark side of life can offer. OLIVIER ZAHM — New York became too commercial, and full of anger and fear? KENNETH ANGER— Yeah. It became Trumpland. OLIVIER ZAHM — How do you see America today? Is it darker than ever? KENNETH ANGER — No, I don’t see it that way. OLIVIER ZAHM —…