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A SPELL TO WARD OFF THE DARKNESS

By Ben RUSSELL, Ben RIVERS

ZOOTROPE FILMS - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, FRANCE, and french speaking territories

Documentary - Completed 2012

Festivals
& Awards

Locarno 2013

Concorso Internazionale

- Year of production
- 2012
- Genres
- Documentary, Road movie, Drama
- Countries
- FRANCE, ESTONIA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Budget
- 0.3 - 0.6 M$
- Duration
- 96 mn
- Director(s)
- Ben RUSSELL, Ben RIVERS
- Writer(s)
- Ben RIVERS, Ben RUSSELL
- Cast
- Robert A.a LOWE
- ISAN
- 0000-0003-907D-0000-E-0000-0000-W
- EIDR
- 10.5240/E4C4-4507-C6C7-6B78-62BF-G
- Synopsis
- From Arctic hermit to failed Commune, Viking re-enactors to Black Metal concert, 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 Northern 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.
- Production schedule
- May 2013
- Beginning of shooting
- Jul 01, 2011