Spell Reel (2017)

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.

Released Feb. 12, 2017 96 min None+

Genres: Documentary

Keywords: tmdb.woman-director, imdb.1970s

Production Companies: Spectre Productions

Country: Portugal
Production Countries: Germany, France, Guinea-Bissau, Portugal
Languages: English, Fulah, French, Portuguese