SPELLBOUND
Film by Patrick Müller based on a poem by Emily Brontë

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EN: SPELLBOUND: In Emily Brontë's world, a young woman is under a spell of blind forces of compulsion acting to draw her towards an unnamed darkness from which she cannot escape.

DE: GEBANNT: In Emily Brontës Welt befindet sich eine junge Frau im Bann blinder Zwangskräfte, die sie in eine unbenannte Dunkelheit ziehen, aus der sie nicht entrinnen kann.

FR: ENVOÛTÉE: Dans le monde d'Emily Brontë, une jeune femme est sous le sort de forces aveugles de compulsion agissant pour l'attirer vers une obscurité sans nom dont elle ne peut s'échapper.

Germany, 2021, 16mm, 5 Min.
Narration: Sarah Kempton
German Translation: Marco Kerler
Music: WellenVorm (Uwe Rottluff)
Camera: Bolex H16 REX2
Film stock: KODAK Vision3 500T 7219
6.5K Transfer: Ochoypico, Madrid
Film processing: Andec Filmtechnik, Berlin
Shot on location in Frankenberg, Saxony, Germany. Filming dates: 17–28 January 2021

Formats: Digital film file (HD), DCP (English, German, French subtitles), 16mm optical print (55m, German or English subtitles)

Festival Screenings:
11/2021 Nature & Culture – Poetry Film Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
10.05.2021 14th Philadelphia Independent Film Festival, USA

Director Statement
Shot on 16mm film during the pandemic lockdown in an unusual dark and freezing cold winter of 2021, I used an old Bolex camera from 1963 for this poetry film. Chemnitz-based musician Wellenvorm created an unique original music for it using only one instrument: an EMS Synthi A „Portabella“.