Lucifer Rising is a short film by director Kenneth Anger. Although virtually completed in 1972, the film was only widely distributed in 1980, after Bobby Beausoleil delivered the finished soundtrack master. History Early development: 1966–67 In mid-1966, Anger began renting a flat on the ground floor of the Westerfeld House, referred to by locals as the Russian Embassy, a dilapidated building located at 1198 Fulton Street in the Alamo Square district of San Francisco. Then in his late thirties, Anger began to plan Lucifer Rising, initially intending for it to document the growing countercultural movement as it existed in California. As Anger stated, he wanted to film "today's new tribe of teenagers, turned-on children – teeny-boppers and adolescent hippies." Anger was influenced by Aleister Crowley's descriptions of Lucifer as the light-bearing god, and was inspired by Crowley's poem "Hymn to Lucifer". According to his biographer Bill Landis, Anger adopted this deity as a "metaphor for the ultimate bad little boy who could corrupt you without coercion". In this context, Lucifer is not the devil but a rebellious mythic hero representing the spirit of the artist. Anger began to search for a young man who could personify Lucifer for the film, and began to bestow the title of "Lucifer" on any young men who would stay with him at the house for more than a few nights. By late 1966, a young musician named Bobby Beausoleil had moved in with Anger, who had declared him to be his Lucifer. Beausoleil later said that he had first met Anger at the Invisible Circus, an event promoted by The Diggers and The Bay Area Sexual Freedom League at Glide Memorial Church, who had enlisted Beausoleil's band, Orkustra, to provide musical accompaniment for a troupe of topless belly dancers. Reportedly, Beausoleil was playing his guitar and licking sweat off a woman's breasts when Anger spotted him, later approaching him to offer a part in the film. Beausoleil has disavowed any claims of his having met Anger in Hollywood in '65 as some have assumed. As Beausoleil later related: According to Beausoleil, the agreement that he made with Anger was that, in exchange for his agreement to star in the film, the filmmaker would provide for the young musician's basic needs and would allow him to live at the Embassy, but that he would not be paid for appearing in the film. While staying in