About this blog

This blog contains texts written by Iris Landar Lygren under the pseudonym or project/company name "Vision Macabre". The texts will mainly be in English, with exceptions for a few Swedish texts. The texts is mainly horror-culture-related and range from "academic" texts and film reviews to art and reflections of the world from my point of view. The main categories for posts here will be:

• A space for the head

My own life and thoughts on the world. Everything from scribbles and skisses to drafts and longer texts. A "blog-page", if you will. Not uncommonly reflecting on daily life as an autistic person with other psychological and physiological conditions, mixed with thoughts on horror culture, art and more.

• Reviews and columns

Diving into mostly horror cinema. Shedding light on the darkest gems or just the average slasher. 

• "Academic" Writing

Essays and reflections from my time as a student.

• About Me

Born in 1989 in Sweden. Autistic artist with problems regarding mental and physical health. Horror-culture fanatic since childhood. Have been active, and for a shorter period employed, within the political left in Sweden when younger, before my health got worse. Back then I also did som modeling as an alternative model, something I don't think I would be suitable for anymore. Special interest in film and culture resulting in a master degree in filmstudies, bachelor degree in culture studies as well as about one and a half year of studies in filmproduction and postproduction. Art- and media production, critical writing as well as horror and sci-fi genre studies is a part of the wide range of studies I've focused on. I have worked with different things during shorter periods of time outside of my own art and media production and volonteer when possible at independent cinemas and cinema festivals.

This blog will serve as a place to put my texts and thoughts as described. One reason for this is to show what I do for potential clients (reviews), but mostly this is a way to put my thoughts outside of my head. For a long, long time I have created art, texts, reasonings that only reach myself and possibly my husband. Most of this gets thrown away, unpublished or archived and never looked at again. This is mainly because I don't think anyone else would be interested in whats going on in my head. But as I get older I have started to reflect on the fact that I eventually (hopefully in a distant future) will not be a part of this world any longer. This is normal and I don't care to be "remembered" in a certain way or another, but I have been thinking of everything that goes on in my brain that will diappear with me. When I read about other peoples lives it can be quite interesting and I'm happy they have shared this even though it might not get read by anyone else at all. My thoughts might not be special in anyway, but in the future when I'm not around anymore they will have become meaningless since there will not be anythong left of them. Maybe that is a good thing, I don't know. But I would like an outlet for them to, if nothing else, be able to go back through them myself. If it has interest to others, then that is (hopefully?) a positive side effect. My thoughts can be quite unstructured and dark. The structure part might get a push from writing it down and the "darkness" might become easier to handle.

So, if you like, read on. If you want to see how my reviews and writings usually look, go to the specific category and skip the others. I also have a website where I link to my showreel for filmproduction and art (www.visionsmacabre.com). If this is the most uninteresting thing you've seen - that is ok as well and you have the possibility to leave and never look back. A fair warning to those who want to read further though; my mind is not exceptional in anyway, but can get quite dark, morbid and strange, and that is not everyones cup of tea. This and the horror-culture theme is why the blog targets adult audiences.

Now you know.