Screening: A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness
@ Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, September 30th, from 7PM - 9PM
Starring musician Robert A.A. Lowe, A Spell… follows an unnamed character through three seemingly disparate moments in his life: in the midst of a 15-person collective on a small Estonian island; in isolation in the majestic wilderness of Northern Finland; and during a black metal concert in Norway. Marked by solitude, ecstatic beauty, and an optimism of the darkest sort, this hypnotic film is at once a document of experience and an experience itself, an inquiry into transcendence that sees the cinema as a site for transformation.
Dir. Ben Rivers and Ben Russell, 2013, 98m, DCP
Presented in partnership with the Film Studies Center, the University of Chicago, in conjunction with Ben Rivers’s exhibition, Urth, at the Renaissance Society (Sep 10-Nov 6).
Admission is free and no booking is required.
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Tags: A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness, Ben Rivers, BEN RUSSELL, Chicago, Hyde Park, Renaissance Society, Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Robert A.A. Lowe
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