A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness

2013 · Documentary · 98 min. · Estonia

From pagan re-enactors to failed communes, black metal festivals to Arctic hermits, and the forever Golden Hour to the Northern Lights, 'A Spell to Ward off the Darkness' is an inquiry into the possibilities of a spiritual existence within an increasingly secular Western culture. A participatory ethnography in the best possible sense, A SPELL choreographs the actions of non-actors within existing Scandinavian landscapes in an effort to arrive at a hybrid document of the past, present, and future; it is a record of experience that proposes belief in transcendence as a viable outcome of living in the now.

Direction Ben Rivers · Ben Russell

Cast Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe · Hunter Hunt-Hendrix · Nicholas MacMaster · Weasel Walter · Marten Keavats · Iti Keavats · Merit Kask · Kadri Kontus · Taraka Larson · Nimai Larson · Iko Malikin · Leo Malikin · Polina Malikin