A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness
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Production year2013
French release18/03/2015
Runtime
1h 38m
Synopsis
A SPELL TO WARD OFF THE DARKNESS follows a single character at three disparate moments in his life: alone in the wilderness of Northern Finland, as one member of a 15-person collective on a small Estonian island, and as the singer of a neo-pagan black metal band in Norway. Taken as a whole, these three moments signal a radical proposition for the creation of utopia in the present.
Starring musician Robert AA Lowe (LICHENS, OM) and co-directed by artists Ben Rivers (UK) and Ben Russell (USA), A SPELL lies somewhere between fiction and non-fiction - it is at once a record of experience and an experience unto itself, an inquiry into transcendence that envisions the cinema as a site for profound transformation.
Credits
Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producer : Rouge International
- Co-production : ARTE France
- Foreign production company : Must Käsi (Black Hand)
- Film exports/foreign sales : Rouge International
- French distribution : Zootrope Films
Full credits (10)
- Screenwriters : Ben Rivers, Ben Russell
- Directors of Photography : Ben Russell, Ben Rivers
- Music Composers : Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, Nicholas Mcmaster
- Editors : Ben Rivers, Ben Russell
- Sound recordists : Chu-Li Shewring, Nicolas Becker, Philippe Ciompi
- Author of original work : Weasel Walter
- Co-producer : Julie Gayet
- Sound editors : Philippe Ciompi, Nicolas Becker
- Sound Mixer : Gérard Lamps
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Documentary
- Sub-genre : Portrait
- Themes : Music, Marginality
- Production language : English
- Coproducer countries : Estonia, France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (Estonia, France)
- Production year : 2013
- French release : 18/03/2015
- Runtime : 1 h 38 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 132.990
- Approval :
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Digital 5.1
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Selections (8)
Delegations (1)
About
FESTIVALS
Since August 2013 :
- Festival del Film Locarno -Opening film Fuori Concorso
- Toronto International Film Festival -Wavelengths program
- Vancouver International Film Festival –Arts & Letters
- Valdivia Festival Internacional de Ciné - Disidencias
- Festival du Nouveau Cinéma Montréal -FNC Lab
- BFI London Film Festival -Experimenta-
- Cork Film Festival
- Cinecity - The Brighton Film Festival
- Vienna International Film Festival
- Thessaloniki International Film Festival-Open horizons
- AFI FEST Los Angeles-New Auteurs
- CPH : DOX - Winner of the New Vision Award
- Mar de Plata International Film Festival -Panorama
- Torino International Film Festival - Best International Documentary
- Filmmaker Milan-Concorso
- REC Festival Internacional de Cinema de Tarragona-Opera Prima
- Madeira Micro International Film Festival
2014 (bookings 04.04.2014) :
- Ambulante Documentary Film Festival
- International Film Festival Rotterdam -Bright future
- DocPoint – Helsinki Documentary Film Festival
- Glasgow Film Festival
- Göteborg International Film Festival
- !F Istanbul International Independent Film Festival –Dark & Edgy
- New Directors/New Films MoMA
- Gaîté Lyrique (The Happy show)
- Cinéma du Réel, Paris
- International House Philadelphia
- Crossroads Film Festival – San Francisco
- Harn museum of Art
- Hong Kong Film Festival–The avant garde
- Images Forum, Tokyo
- Jeonju International Film Festival–Expanded Cinema
- Courtisane festival – Belgique
- Live Arts Week III - Bologna
- FICUNAM - Festival Internacional de Cine Unam–Senderos
- Era New Horizon
- Gene Siskel Film Center (European Union Film Festival)
- MOMA New Directors / New Films
- Dokfilmwoche Hamburg
- Harvard Film Archive
- Ann Arbor Film Festival
- Wisconsin Film Festival
- Sight Unseen
- Northwest Film Center
- Nashville Film Festival
- Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center NYC
- Squeeky Wheel - Buffalo, NY
- The Basilica in Hudson, NY
- NWFILMFORUM - Portland, OR
- Cinefamily - LOS ANGELES, CA
- Belacourt in Nashville
- The Trylon, Minneapolis,
- Austin FIlm Society
- The Cinematheque in Vancouver Canada
- Lima Independiente Festival Internacional de Cine
- Sonar, Barcelona’s International festival of advanced Music and New Media Art
- Karlovy Vary International film festival
- Dokufest (Kosovo)
- Olhar de Cinema – Festival internacional de Curitiba
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