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Möt våra gäster/Guest presentations IV
Gabrielle de Bourg är en prisbelönt rollspelsförfattare som kommer att skriva äventyr till den svenska utgåvan av Call of Cthulhu. Hon har tidigare skrivit äventyr till det svenska Lovecraftrollspelet Kutulu och det uppmärksammande rollspelet Ur Varselklotet. Gabrielle är en aktiv arrangör och spelledare som har synts på flera konvent och hörts i många poddar. Hon har också arbetat med genrefilmsfestivalen Monsters of Film. Gabrielle arbetar aktivt för en mer inkluderande rollspelshobby och är engagerad i organisationen QueerNördarna samt belönades med Silver som Bästa Kommunikatör på Fenix Awards 2018 för sitt arbete. Hon har en stor kärlek till skräck i alla dess former och speciellt allt som kan kopplas till Lovecrafts kosmiska universum, exempelvis John Carpenters filmer. Foto: Fredrik Sjögren.
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Möt våra gäster/Guest presentations III
[IN ENGLISH BELOW] Henrik Möller är en Malmöbaserad filmskapare och författare som är vansinnigt produktiv. Bland mycket annat har han gett ut de Lovecraftinspirerade bilderböckerna Att bygga en gud (som bygger på en idé av Richard Stanley, 2015) och Vägen till Necronomicon (2017), båda illustrerade av Lars Krantz (se illustrationen ovan). Han har också gjort kortfilmer baserade på böckerna. I likhet med hans långfilm Lokalvårdaren (eller Feed the Light som är den internationella titeln, 2014) har de visats på tidigare upplagor av Stockholms H. P. Lovecraftfestival. Möller har denna gång med sig den tredje och avslutande delen i trilogin av Lovecraftinspirerade historier han gjort med Krantz, Att skapa en myt. Berättelsen och illustrationerna är råa, skabrösa och inget för de kräsmagade. Utöver filmandet ligger Möller också bakom podcasten Udda Ting som kretsar kring sällsamma historier och konst samt kreativa människor. Lyssna här! [ENGLISH] Henrik Möller is an insanely productive artist, filmmaker and writer based in Malmö. Among his varied output we find the Lovecraft inspired books Creation of a God (based on an original idea by Richard Stanley, 2015) and The Road to Necronomicon (2017), both of them illustrated by Lars Krantz (for an example of his work see the portrait of Möller above). Möller has also made short films based on the books. Like his feature Feed the Light (2014) they have been screened at previous editions of The Stockholm H. P. Lovecraft Festival. This time around Möller brings the third and final instalment of his and Krantz’s Lovecraft trilogy, Creation of a Myth. The […]
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Möt våra gäster/Guest presentations II
[IN ENGLISH BELOW] Regissören Ludvig Gür och skådespelaren Kola Krauze kommer till festivalen med sitt senaste samarbete The Outsider i bagaget. Baserad på Lovecraftnovellen med samma namn (som ursprungligen publicerades i aprilnumret av Weird Tales 1926) har Gür skrivit ett manus som för berättelsen in i vår tid. Kortfilmen spelades in i Stockholmsområdet under den gångna sommaren och efterarbetet pågår. En kort sekvens har dock färdigställts så de som besöker Stockholms H. P. Lovecraftfestival VII har chansen att vara först i världen med att få se något från projektet. Gür och Krauze har tidigare gjort den hyllade kortfilmen Clean Colored Wire (2017) tillsammans. Prispengarna användes till att genomföra The Outsider. Gür har även regisserat musikvideos, reklam samt dokumentärer. Flertalet nya filmer av honom är på väg. Krauze debuterade som skådespelare redan på 80-talet. På senare tid har man kunnat se honom i exempelvis 24: Live Another Day (2014), Outlander (2016), Torpederna (2017), Saltön (2017) och Bron (2018). Hans röst har hörts i spel som Gauntlet (2014), Helldivers (2015) och Stellaris (2016). [ENGLISH] Director Ludvig Gür and actor Kola Krauze show up at the festival to present their latest collaboration The Outsider. Based on the short story of the same name (originally published in the April 1926 issue of Weird Tales) Gür has taken Lovecraft’s basic premise but changed the setting to the present. The short subject was shot in the Stockholm area this summer and is currently undergoing post production. A short sequence has however been finished so that the visitors […]
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En date med Liam Williamsson av Anders Fager
Dags att avslöja årets första satellitevenemang: EN DATE MED LIAM WILLIAMSSON Av Anders Fager. Framförd av Anders Fager med vänner. Kungsstensgymnasiet. Kungsstensgatan 34. Fredag 21/10 1900. Kom i tid! Inget eftersläpp. Pris 60 kronor. Betalas kontant i dörren. Ta med en ficklampa och sockor eller tofflor du kan gå ljudlöst i! I Anders Fager ”Samlade Svenska Kulter” fick vi i ”Leka Med Liam” lära känna lilla Liam som matade ett monster i underjorden med allt större och varmare bitar av kött. Nu har tio år gått. Liam går i nian och offrar fortfarande till det som lever under klippan. Liam har dessutom börjat intressera sig för tjejer. Som ett unikt, en enda gång i livet-spektakel läser Anders Fager den ännu inte utgivna novellen ”Dejta Med Liam” på Kungstensgymnasiet. Det kommer att vara mörkt, skrämmande och mycket annorlunda.
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Meet our poster Artist: Rodrigo Obón
The festival proper may be over but we still have a little bit of Lovecraft action going on at Serieteket. Those who have missed out have a few days left to come and see the exhibition Rodrigo on the Raw making an unsettling mark in our display cases. Those who have visited our festival know that Rodrigo has made us look good since our second offering (our first poster was the result of a great collaboration between Andrew Leman and Darrell Tutchton of HPLHS) back in the fall of 2012 and that first amazing portrait of HPL is still the header on our web pages. Now it is time for Rodrigo to weigh in on his Lovecraftian influences and answer these questions: 1. What was your first encounter with H.P. Lovecraft? 2. Which one of his stories do you like the best? Take it away Rodrigo! 1. My first encounter was through Re-Animator by Stuart Gordon. I saw the film in the late 80s and it made me curious about Lovecraft. I was a bit chocked though when I read the source material and realised how fast and loose the filmmakers had played with it. 2. My favourite is The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. I’ve been toying with the idea of illustrating it for a long time. Too bad I’m so damn lazy. I for one hope we can inspire the man to get started on that project because I think the results would be nothing short of masterly. Rodrigo in the […]
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Meet our guests and contributors: Rickard Fornstedt
As part of the countdown to the festival I’ve asked our esteemed guests and contributors three quick questions: 1. What was your first encounter with H.P. Lovecraft? 2. Which one of his stories do you like the best? 3. What will you be doing at SHPLFV? You will probably find a lot of common ground reading their answers in the days to come. Our ninth contributor to be interviewed is cartoonist/illustrator Rickard Fornstedt. 1. It came pretty late in life. A teacher I had in college a couple of years ago used to mix some Lovecraft references into our tasks, but I didn’t actually read anything by H.P. Lovecraft until last year. Me and the gang used to play Cthulhu By Gaslight, and one of my friends in the group lent me a copy of At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror (with a wonderful cover illustration by Michael Whelan). 2. ”The Statement of Randolph Carter”. That last line gives me chills. 3. Me and Mohammed Omar will showcase our comic Professor Frans och Necronomicon i Upsala.
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Meet our guests and contributors: Mohammed Omar
As part of the countdown to the festival I’ve asked our esteemed guests and contributors three quick questions: 1. What was your first encounter with H.P. Lovecraft? 2. Which one of his stories do you like the best? 3. What will you be doing at SHPLFV? You will probably find a lot of common ground reading their answers in the days to come. Our contributor number eight to be interviewed is writer Mohammed Omar. 1. During the 80’s I played the roleplaying game Call of Cthulhu with a couple of class mates. The 3:rd edition from 1986. I remember liking the idea of Sanity Points, that you could go insane. Later in the 90’s I had goth friends who listened to Fields of the Nephilim. That band had some Lovecraftian influences in their songs. 2. My favourite short story is ”The Call of Cthulhu”. Not because of Cthulhu himself. I’ve never been that interested in the monsters. Tentacles are just not my thing. What I do like is the idea of the sunken city, R’lyeh somewhere on the bottom of the Pacific, like a frightening version of Atlantis. Also the concept of artists painting dreams that are not their own. I have used that idea in my poems. 3. I will be talking about a comic book that I’ve done in collaboration with the artist Rickard Fornstedt. It’s called ”Necronomicon in Upsala”. The protagonist is Frans Stenberg, an excentric egyptologist. At his side is Star Wars fanboy Henning. It turns out […]
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Meet our guests and contributors: Jonas Andersson
As part of the countdown to the festival I’ve asked our esteemed guests and contributors three quick questions: 1. What was your first encounter with H.P. Lovecraft? 2. Which one of his stories do you like the best? 3. What will you be doing at SHPLFV? You will probably find a lot of common ground reading their answers in the days to come. Our sixth contributor to be interviewed is cartoonist/illustrator Jonas Andersson. 1. My first thought was the roleplaying game (The Call of Cthulhu, ed. note), but actually it must have been ”The Music of Erich Zann” that was featured in a Hitchcock Presents short story collection. 2. My favourite would probably be ”The Shadow Over Innsmouth”. 3. Myself and Daniel Thollin have just released our latest graphic novel, 1000 Ögon: Cthulhu. A stand alone sequel to last year’s 1000 Ögon: Lovecraft. It will be availabe for purchase at the festival.
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