Spell Reel
2017•1h 36m•6.2•Released
Documentary
The first image is in black and white, upside down and projected into a black box that then becomes the frame. It now hovers like a time capsule near a man’s face. He looks down, listening in on a female guerrilla fighter and translating her words from Fulani. Within the capsule, money is counted and paid out as a new currency, the numbers of the years run backwards in the black box. A 16-mm film glides through the man's hands and is transferred to a laptop screen frame by frame.
Director
Filipa César
Writer
Sana Na N'Hada
Languages
Fulah, French, English
Studio
Spectre Productions
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