Directed by : Ben Russell, Ben Rivers <br />Produced by : Rouge International <br />Genre: Documentary - Runtime: 1 h 38 min <br />French release: 18/03/2015 <br />Production year: 2013 <br /><br />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.<br /><br /> 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.<br /><br />More info: http://en.unifrance.org/movie/36028/a-spell-to-ward-off-the-darkness
