Spell Reel
MovieTitle | Spell Reel |
User score | 6 |
Release date | Feb 12, 2017 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Filipa César |
Production country | Guinea-Bissau, Germany, Portugal, France |
Production companies | Spectre Productions |
Run time | 96 min. |
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.