A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness (2013)
A Spell is a non-fiction feature film in three parts that refers directly to the cinema of Jean Rouch (Chronicle of a Summer), Lisandro Alonso (La Libertad), and Jean-Luc Godard (Sympathy for the Devil), among others. Shot on colour Super 16 mm film stock in the farther reaches of Finland, Estonia and Norway by artist/filmmakers Ben Rivers (UK) and Ben Russell (USA), A Spell depicts a single character at three disparate moments in his late 20s – as a hermit in the solitude of the Arctic Circle, as an uncertain participant in a contemporary “commune” in Estonia, and as the ...
Director: Ben Russell | Ben Rivers
Main Data
View all| Production Firm(s) | Rouge International (France) |
| Film Category | Documentary |
| Duration | 98:00 |
Crew
View all| Producer | Julie Gayet | Nadia Turincev | Indrek Kasela |
| Director | Ben Russell | Ben Rivers |
| Screenwriter | Ben Russell | Ben Rivers |
| Cinematographer | Ben Russell | Ben Rivers |
| Sound Designer | Philippe Ciompi | Nicolas Becker |
| Editor | Ben Russell | Ben Rivers |
Festivals, awards, nominations
View all- Participation, Vancouver Film Festival (Canada), 2013
- Participation, Festival du nouveau cinéma/Montreal International Festival of New Cinema and New Media (Canada), 2013, FNC Lab
- Participation, Viennale - Vienna International Film Festval (Austria), 2013
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