A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness
Aug 09 2013
•2h 39m
•Documentary, Music
A man at three disparate moments in his life: as a member of a fifteen-person collective on a small Estonian island, alone in the wilderness of Northern Finland and as the singer of a neo-pagan black metal band in Norway. Three moments for a radical proposition for the creation of utopia in the present.
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Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe
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