My film “Cinemagician” is released today!

  Iconic American filmmaker Kenneth Anger has inspired generations of creative storytellers since the late 1940s. He is a unique visionary who drifts from pure poetry within his magical filmmaking to sardonic gossip in his bestselling “Hollywood Babylon” books. In-between these extremes we find a person who never tires of exploring his own creativity. In this intimate documentary, Anger lets us in on his fascinating life story, his approaches to filmmaking, and his relationship to British occultist Aleister Crowley. A film by Carl Abrahamsson, Sweden, 2019. 48 minutes.   Cinemagician: Conversations with Kenneth Anger from Carl Abrahamsson on Vimeo.   For more information on the An Art Apart documentary series, please visit: trapartfilm.com To support ongoing projects, please visit: patreon.com/vanessa23carl  

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Please support my new film about Anton LaVey!

  I just basically wrapped up my film about Kenneth Anger (Cinemagician – Conversations with Kenneth Anger), which will very soon be released. But I can’t sit still. Ants in the cinematic pants, or what? Today, I launched the crowdfunder campaign for my documentary about Anton LaVey (Anton LaVey – Into the Devil’s Den). I have shot all the material, but now head into post production and acquisitions of archival material. Time and Money! Please take a look at the trailer to get a feel for the project. If you like what you see and would like to support the film, please go to the project page at Indiegogo: INTO THE DEVIL’S DEN CROWDFUNDER CAMPAIGN (Please feel free to spread the link as much as you want!)     Thank You! It’s going to be one hell of a film! Official Information: In 1989, I met Anton LaVey for the first time. At this time in his life, LaVey was seeing only a select few people. For this film, I’ve met and interviewed some of...

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Tao oats for breakfast

  Antidotes to the contemporary malaise: do nothing, and ambitiously so. If you need or want to do something, fine. But in terms of imposed agendas and habitual relationships, just hold your horses for a while. Allow yourself to clearly formulate just how drained these actions and people actually make you feel. Why on earth do you allow it? If it’s a matter of extreme importance, urgency or sustenance, by all means accept. But never uncritically. Most of our time is not spent in urgencies or extreme situations. The run of the mill, the everyday, the trivial regularities… These are the relevant barricades of your existential leakage counterforce. Dare to say NO to what’s expected of you. You don’t have to justify anything to anyone. It feels great to reclaim your time and space, and it’s much easier than you think. Remember Nancy Reagan? “Just say NO!” Please also note what the reactions are to your new attitude. These will be indicative of who or what constitute the greatest...

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The Hermetic Vessel

  There is no need to tell anyone anything. The allure of social media is shortsighted, and especially in the long run. Being glued to dopamine-infused communicational needs spells l-e-a-k-a-g-e. Why spill the beans before it’s even time to cook? Work, work, work. Then package, market, sell. But avoid leakage to the greatest extent possible because it will decimate the potency of the end result. It’s devious how this works: you think you’re informing – enthusiastically so! – but in actual fact you’re deforming both form and content by not keeping the process hermetic. If you have a tight hermetic vessel, you’ll attract far more than with a wide open vessel with ten social media megaphones attached. It’s all in the silent force. Work, work, work. Then package, market, sell. Not the other way around. By the way, this little text could actually be seen as leakage too, so I’d better… stop… writing…     Become a Patron!  

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