A SPELL follows an unnamed character through three seemingly disparate moments in his life. With little explanation, we join him 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 concert as the singer and guitarist of a black metal band in Norway. Marked by loneliness, ecstatic beauty and an optimism of the darkest sort.

Starring musician Robert AA Lowe (best known for his intense live performances under the name LICHENS) in the lead role, A SPELL lies somewhere between fiction and non-fiction - it is at once a document of experience and an experience itself, an inquiry into transcendence that sees the cinema as a site for transformation.

"With its very title, A SPELL TO WARD OFF THE DARKNESS is a film that announces itself as being in league with forces not entirely of this world."—Michael Sicinski, Cinemascope

"A tapestry of beautifully rendered concepts...impressively committed to its poetic design."—Eric Kohn, Indiewire

"Elegantly artistic and engagingly challenging... It is a film that aims to challenge and provoke and succeeds on that score."—Mark Adams, Screen Daily

2014 Ambulante Documentary Film Festival

2014 International Film Festival Rotterdam

2014 DocPoint – Helsinki Documentary Film Festival

2014 Glasgow Film Festival

2014 Göteborg International Film Festival

2014 !F Istanbul International Independent Film Festival

2014 New Directors/New Films MoMA

2014 Cinéma du Réel, Paris

2014 International House Philadelphia

2014 European Union Film Festival, Chicago

2014 Crossroads Film Festival – San Francisco

2014 Jeonju International Film Festival

2014 FICUNAM - Festival Internacional de Cine Unam

2014 Era New Horizon

2013 Festival del Film Locarno

2013 Toronto International Film Festival

2013 Vancouver International Film Festival

2013 Valdivia Festival Internacional de Ciné

2013 Festival du Nouveau Cinéma Montréal

2013 BFI London Film Festival

2013 Cork Film Festival

2013 Cinecity – The Brighton Film Festival

2013 Vienna International Film Festival

2013 Thessaloniki International Film Festival

2013 AFI FEST Los Angeles

2013 CPH : DOX

2013 Mar de Plata International Film Festival

2013 Torino International Film Festival, Best International Documentary

2013 Filmmaker Milan

2013 REC Festival Internacional de Cinema de Tarragona

2013 Madeira Micro International Film Festival