A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness

A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
English ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )
English ( Dolby Linear PCM )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
99 min + 34 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Short Film
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Movie filmed in 2013 and produced in:
Estonia ( Russia, Eastern Europe )
France ( France, Benelux )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Ben Rivers
Ben Russell

Written By:
Ben Russell
Ben Rivers

Actors:
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe

Synopsis:

A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness, the first feature-length collaboration between artist filmmakers Ben Rivers (Two Years at Sea) and Ben Russell (Let Each One Go Where He May) follows an unnamed character through three seemingly disparate moments in his life. With little explanation, we join him in the midst of a 15-person collective on a small Estonian island; in isolation in the majestic wilderness of Northern Finland; and during a concert as the singer and guitarist of a black metal band in Norway. Marked by loneliness, ecstatic beauty and an optimism of the darkest sort, A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness is a radical proposition for the existence of utopia in the present.

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.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 05 March, 2015.

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