Great interview in Ultra Swank

  California Infernal: Anton LaVey & Jayne Mansfield as Portrayed by Walter Fischer is doing really well, and is also getting a lot of attention. The most recent interview is by Baron von Schwankenstein at Ultra Swank. To read the interview at their site, please go HERE! Or just read on below: Thank you for taking time to talk with Ultra Swank, Carl. Tell us a bit about your background and how it relates to the production of your book California Infernal. For me, it’s been a strange time warp that I’ve enjoyed greatly. Many of these images were so seminal to me in my teens/formatting days. So it almost feels like they are coming back to haunt me. Especially having been in that ritual chamber myself at a later date. I wouldn’t say it feels like home, but it sure adds another fascinating dimension in my mind. So there’s a personal connection beyond your involvement as publisher. So when and where did you first encounter these images ? How did they influence you ? I would say I...

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COVEN released on Halloween

  Highbrow Lowlife proudly presents COVEN, a brand new compilation celebrating the life and work of Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge (1969-2007). Its executive producer, American psychoanalyst and artist Vanessa Sinclair, invited mainly female artists to participate and create a magical-musical coven. The result is a dynamic mix of talent and sounds that create a haunting yet inspiring impact. The album is now available all over the digisphere (iTunes, Spotify etc). If you would like to support the label, Highbrow Lowlife, please consider buying the album from their site: www.highbrow-lowlife.com 1. Jill Tracy: Sell my soul 2. Knifesex: Sex & death 3. Alice Genese: Jackie’s song 4. Freudian Slit: The secret life of Walter MIDI (Stephen Bartlett mix) 5. katie bishop: Adagio for woodwind quintet (2015) 6. People Like Us: Clouds 7. Carl Abrahamsson & Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge:   Crossroads 8. Sharron Kraus: Nightmare 9. Delphic Oracle: Death Dreams (Skintown remix) 10. Serena...

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Lunacy for everyone

  Lunacy was first screened at the Occult Film Festival in Copenhagen, Denmark, on October 27th 2017. It was a truly honoring experience for me as the context wasn’t really a context but actually more like a temporary home for many cinematic gems of different kinds. Anna Biller’s The Love Witch (2016, filmed and shown on 35 mm), Kenneth Anger’s Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, Invocation of my Demon Brother, Lucifer Rising and The Man we want to hang (all shown on 16 mm) would have been ”enough” to blow many minds. But on top were also the 1920s stag film The Black Mass, the German masterpiece Wolkenschatten (2014) and Pierre Clementis Visa de Censure (1975). In all, a strange and hefty mix of truly artistic expressions of integrity. To have Lunacy screened in this mix was actually more than an honor. It was an acknowledgement, an approval, and decidedly an inspiration for further film projects. Lunacy isn’t ”about” the moon per se but could perhaps be seen as being permeated...

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Occult film festival debuts “LUNACY”

  The Occult Film Festival in Copenhagen, organised by the excellent film historian Jack Stevenson, will host the world premiere of my new film LUNACY. In many ways, this film is a continuation of the state of mind inflicted by 2016’s SUB UMBRA ALARUM LUNA. Shot mainly on super-8 and carrying massive lunar respect, the film transports you to a different realm. The work process for this film was quite different though. Where SUB UMBRA is accompanied by a live soundtrack by Cotton Ferox, LUNACY takes off from cut-ups about the moon made, read and recorded by Vanessa Sinclair. I then made the music for these four long pieces, and these in turn constitute the structure of the film. The Occult Film Festival takes place on October 26-29 at Husets Biograf in central Copenhagen. I will also introduce the films on the other evenings. Please follow these links for more information.  

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