A SPELL TO WARD OFF THE DARKNESS

By Ben RUSSELL, Ben RIVERS

MUST KASI / KINO SÕPRUS - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, ESTONIA

Documentary - Completed 2012


Festivals
& Awards

Locarno 2013
Concorso Internazionale
    • Year of production
    • 2012
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • FRANCE
    • Budget
    • 0.3 - 0.6 M$
    • Duration
    • 96 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Ben RUSSELL, Ben RIVERS
    • 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