Filmed and edited by Schneemann; with herself, James Tenney and Kitch.

A silent film of collaged and painted sequences of lovemaking between Schneemann and her then partner, composer James Tenney; observed by the cat, Kitch.

"...I wanted to see if the experience of what I saw would have any correspondence to what I felt-- the intimacy of the lovemaking... And I wanted to put into the materiality of film the energies of the body, so that the film itself dissolves and recombines and is transparent and dense-- as one feels during lovemaking... It is different from any pornographic work that you've ever seen-- that's why people are still looking at it! And there's no objectification or fetishization of the woman." –Carolee Schneemann

"Pornography is an anti-emotional medium, in content and intent, and its lack of emotion renders it wholly ineffective for women. This absence of sensuality is so contrary to female eroticism that pornography becomes, in fact, anti-sexual. Schneemann's film, by contrast, is devastatingly erotic, transcending the surfaces of sex to communicate its true spirit, its meaning as an activity for herself and, quite accurately, women in general. Significantly, Schneemann conceives the film as shot through the eyes of her cat -- the impassive observer whose view of human sexuality is free of voyeurism and ignorant of morality."-- B. Ruby Rich

Credits: Conceived, Directed, Photographed and Edited by Kenneth Anger. Camera Assistant: Chester Kessler. Cast: Kenneth Anger (The Dreamer); Bill Seltzer (Bare-Chested Sailor); Gordon Gray (Body-Bearing Sailor); crowd of sailors. Filmed in Hollywood. Sound (Music by Respighi).

Synopsis: A dissatisfied dreamer awakes, goes out in the night seeking "a light" and is drawn through the needle's eye. A dream of a dream, he returns to a bed less empty than before.--Kenneth Anger

Anger at 17 stars in the pioneering homoerotic film he made over the first weekend his parents left him at home alone. Fireworks is the earliest Anger film in distribution. The filmmaker cites Jean Cocteau and Aleister Crowley as major influences.