Synopsis
Escape Episode was a wholly atypical project for filmmaker Kenneth Anger, and yet it was the most well-received of his early films. Based on the myth of Andromeda, a girl is held captive in a decaying mausoleum located by the seaside by a "religious fanatic dragon" (according to Anger). The girl secretly carries on a romance with a "beach-boy" who struggles to rescue her from her plight -- but in the end the girl manages to escape on her own. This Anger-directed heterosexual romance was shown widely in...more