A video lecture on Derek Jarman

Carl Abrahamsson: Tripping the Dark Light Fantastic – Some Notes On Derek Jarman and His Influence

Author Carl Abrahamsson talks about his admiration for British filmmaker and occultist Derek Jarman in general and Jarman’s psychedelic super-8 epic ”In the Shadow of the Sun” (1980) specifically. This film and its soundtrack by Throbbing Gristle became a door opener for Abrahamsson, into a world of Occulture and underground art as creative tools in an influential  magical world view, and into a world of mind-expanding experimental cinema as a modern-day example of timeless Occultism. In 2015, Abrahamsson even made his own tribute to Jarman’s influential film: ”Sub Umbra Alarum Luna.” Derek Jarman was a key figure within a never before experienced scene in which the medieval magic of John Dee cross-fertilized with the radical sex magic ideas of Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth (TOPY).

If you would like to read this lecture, it has been published in Carl Abrahamsson’s Source Magic – The Origin of Art, Science and Culture (Inner Traditions, 2023):