Spell Reel

Spell Reel — Plot

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.

• Release date
• February 12, 2017
• Runtime
• 96 min
• Genres
• Documentary
• Director
• Filipa César