Movie

Spell Reel (2017)

• February 12, 2017
• 1h 36m

• Documentary

Overview

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

Writers

Sana Na N'Hada