Jonas Mekas, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Cynthia Rowley, Bill Powers and co-organizers Benn Northover and Lola Schnabel were among attendees at Anthology Film Archives' benefit Return to the Pleasure Dome last night honoring the work of avant film legend Kenneth Anger. The evening, which included performances from Jihae, the Virgins, Sonic Youth, Lou Reed, Anger's and Brian Butler's band Technicolor Skull, was emceed by actor Ben Foster, who reminded the room that though the Anthology Film Archives has become a "cathedral" to avant-garde film, the building's roof is leaking. Foster's in-betweens, however, went unheard in an upstairs area, where people chatted over his speeches. Julian Schnabel eventually had enough. "People upstairs, shut the fuck up," he yelled after storming on stage to admonish the crowd. "Don't be a fucking drag." Bands chose what films would be projected behind them as they performed: the Virgins played a subdued but spandex-featuring set in front of Maya Deren's gorgeous The Very Eye of Night; Sonic Youth chose Mekas' Walden (Diaries, Notes, and Sketches) and a mute Reed (introduced by Hoffman) performed briefly in front of Deren's Meditations on Violence. Moby deejayed as smoke filled the room to set the scene for Technicolor Skull's performance in front of  scenes from Anger's Lucifer Rising. (After he exited the stage Foster told the crowd "you will never see anything like that again." Indeed, Anger might be the first person to ever have summoned the Devil in a pair of corduroy slacks). At the end of the evening, Mekas presented Anger with a lifetime achievement award, and, as Mekas' band Now We Are Here took the stage behind him to play out the night, the Archives' founder urged the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Arts not to preserve film through digitalization. "Film is what comes alive," he said. "Not video, not digital. Film."