A conjuration of the presiding Princes, Angels, and Spirits of MARS, formed as a “high” view of the Myth of the American Motorcyclist. The Power Machine is seen as a tribal totem, from toy to terror. Thanatos in chrome and black leather and bursting jeans. Anger described his now iconic queer film to French magazine Les Inrockuptibles in 1997, in these terms: "An obsession with machines, motorbikes, cars or firearms is governed by the sign of Scorpio. It also governs the sexual organs, which are, in a sense, machines themselves. I see this attraction to machines, power, and speed as a projection of Mars’ energy. The lads in ‘Scorpio Rising’ didn’t realise that they were identifying sexually with their motorbikes, just like cowboys whose horses become part of themselves... I’ve always been fascinated by the survival of primitive and pagan traditions in everyday life.”