Path to Freedom: Music on Film
A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness
Directors
Ben Rivers
Ben Russell
Producers
Julie Gayet
Nadia Turincev
Cinematographers
Ben Rivers
Ben Russell
Editors
Ben Rivers
Ben Russell
Sound
Nicolas Becker
Phillipe Ciomp
Contact
Rouge International
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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.
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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