To attract press attention, Anger arranged a photo shoot at his basement flat, in which a number of other film directors were in attendance, among them Cammell herself, Dennis Hopper, and Alejandro Jodorowsky. Anger proceeded to film eight minutes of footage in which he played the role of a magus dancing around a magic circle; he titled this "Lucifer Rising, Part I", and used it to convince the National Film Finance Corporation to provide him with £15,000 to complete the rest of the film. This action sparked some controversy in the conservative press, with the "Sunday Telegraph" publishing a March 1971 headline of "Devil Film to Get State Aid". With this monetary backing, Anger flew the cast out to both Exernsteine in Germany and Egypt to get more footage for the film, with "The Evening Standard" sending a reporter to write an article on their filming in Egypt. On set, Anger repeatedly argued with Chris Jagger, resulting in the latter being fired by the director.