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Spell Reel

Spell Reel

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  • Guinea-Bissau,
  • Germany,
  • Portugal
  • 2017
  • · 96m

Director Filipa César
Genre Documentary

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.

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