A SPELL TO WARD OFF THE DARKNESS
synopsis
From pagan re-enactors to failed communes, black metal festivals to Arctic hermits, and the forever Golden Hour to the Northern Lights, A Spell to Ward off the Darkness is an inquiry into the possibilities of a spiritual existence within an increasingly secular Western culture. A participatory ethnography in the best possible sense, A Spell choreographs the actions of non-actors within existing Scandinavian landscapes in an effort to arrive at a hybrid document of the past, present, and future; it is a record of experience that proposes belief in transcendence as a viable outcome of living in the now.
international title: | A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness |
original title: | A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness |
country: | France, Estonia |
year: | 2013 |
genre: | documentary |
directed by: | Ben Rivers, Ben Russell |
film run: | 95' |
screenplay: | Ben Rivers, Ben Russell |
cinematography by: | Ben Rivers, Ben Russell |
film editing: | Ben Rivers, Ben Russell |
music: | Veldo Tormis, Lichens, Queequeg |
producer: | Julie Gayet, Indrek Kasela, Nadia Turincev |
production: | Rouge International, Must Käsi (Black Hand) |