A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness

Wednesday, August 15
21:00
Garage Screen Summer Cinema

A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness

This debut writing/directing collaboration of British artist Ben Rivers and American director Ben Russell is devoted to the alternative practices of (self)cognition. New pagans, members of decaying communes, black metal bands, and hermits in the Arctic form the human "landscape" in their anthropologic film, which is structured as an immersive audio and visual journey.

A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness represents a study of a possible alternative—spiritual—life framed in modern Western culture. Based on the ethnographic approach and close involvement of the writers in the life of their characters, A Spell documents the experience of faith in transcendence as the only way of survival in modern civilization.

Directors Ben Rivers, Ben Russell
France, Estonia, 2013, 98 min, 18+

In the year of the 10th anniversary celebration, Garage visitors are invited to see the best of the classics, festival discoveries, and the boldest experimental films at Garage Screen Summer Cinema.

This season the program will be split into several sections. As usual, all films will be screened in the original language with Russian subtitles.

Wednesday, August 15
21:00
Garage Screen Summer Cinema
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