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Path to Freedom: Music on Film

A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness

Regjisorët

Ben Rivers

Ben Russell

Producentët

Julie Gayet

Nadia Turincev

Kinematografët

Ben Rivers

Ben Russell

Editorët

Ben Rivers

Ben Russell

Zërimi

Nicolas Becker

Phillipe Ciomp

Kontakti

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A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness

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2013

France, Estonia

94 min

Color

A SPELL 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 is a radical proposition for the existence of utopia in the present.

Director

Ben Rivers studied Fine Art at Falmouth School of Art, initially in sculpture before moving into photography and super8 film. After his degree he taught himself 16mm filmmaking and hand-processing. His practice as a filmmaker treads a line between documentary and fiction.

Ben Russell (b.1976, USA) is an itinerant media artist and curator whose films, installations, and performances foster a deep engagement with the history and semiotics of the moving image.

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