From the directors of the critically acclaimed Two Years at Sea, A Spell to Ward off the Darkness 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, A SPELL… stars 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 nonfiction – 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.

A Spell To Ward off the Darkness is out now