Spell Reel

(2017)

★ 6.2 IMDb · 5 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 2017

Runtime: 96 мин

Country: Guinea-Bissau, Germany

Director: Filipa César

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.