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   Until the Light Takes Us is a feature length documentary chronicling the history, ideology and aesthetic of Norwegian black metal - a musical subculture infamous as much for a series of murders and church arsons as it is for its unique musical and visual aesthetics and extreme ideologies. This is the first film to shed light on a movement that has been shrouded in darkness and rumor and further obscured by inaccurate and shallow depictions. Featuring exclusive interviews and verité with the musicians, a wealth of rare, seldom seen footage from the "Black Circle"s earliest days, Until the Light Takes Us is an intimate exploration of the controversial movement that has captured the attention of the world. The filmmakers spent a couple years in Norway getting to know the key players in the scene, and this is their story.

I was surprised by how full the theater was when I got there about ten minutes before showtime. Always nice to see that kind of support in the middle of the day, especially when you're talking about a documentary about the black metal movement in Norway, hardly the sort of marquee title that normally sells out at a festival... UNTIL THE LIGHT TAKES US is my favorite kind of documentary, squarely focused on someone instead of something. It's not enough to just say that your film is about something as broadly defined as Norway's black metal scene. That's not a story. That's not compelling. It's a backdrop at best. Wisely, co-directors Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell chose to focus on a few particular players in the scene, using their stories to paint the larger picture. It's incredibly effective, and there's real control in the way they parcel out information at just the right moment for maximum effect." - Ain't It Cool News

"As richly compelling and artfully shot as rock docs get, Until the Light Takes Us goes beyond charting black metal's underpinnings and the tabloid sensationalism of its fiery saga. Through smartly constructed reveals and blunt interviews that include many vulnerable moments, Ewell and Aites investigate the entanglement of art, terrorism, and the media that tried to define both." - LA Weekly (Critic's Pick)

"I’d never heard of Norwegian black metal, which flourished in the early 1990s, but that didn’t prevent me from becoming engrossed in — and highly disturbed by — the bizarre, violent stories of some of the participants of that musical scene as presented in Until the Light Takes Us. There are murders...[spoiler removed]...suicides, rabid nationalism, anti-Judeo-Christian diatribes, anti-Americanism, church burnings, media sensationalism, faux satanism, and, in my view, the pervasive sensation that we live in a very, very sick world — one in which violence and hatred are perceived as not only valid but also as desirable manifestations of dissent." - Andre Soares, Alternative Film Guide

"This documentary is an excellent piece of minimalist but effective storytelling, much like the music that inspired it. If you seek the simple truths hidden behind the headlines, this film will lead you to them." - The Left Hand Path

This riveting documentary is not a music movie but a clear-sighted investigation into the murky subculture of Norwegian black metal music, whose history, though distorted and sensationalized by the press, is still pretty sensational even in the undistorted version, strewn with the ashes of torched churches and the blood of murder and suicide victims. As the filmmakers note, black metal “blurs the line between music, art, activism and terror...there’s really no other art or music or ideological movement like it.” Focusing on three figures--self-destructive pioneer Dead (of the group Mayhem), convicted murderer Varg Vikernes (of Burzum), and the relatively moderate Gylve Nagell (of Darkthrone)--UNTIL THE LIGHT draws a deeply, disturbingly ambivalent portrait of a contradictory movement that is too complex either to endorse or to dismiss. In English and Norwegian with English subtitles. - Blah+Blah+Blog

"Even if one doesn’t like black metal, one would be riveted by the power of the film. This is one of the best things cinema has to offer, not only to fans of metal, but to anyone with any interest about documentaries and about what...happened in Norway during the late ‘80s – early 90s. Great film and then some." - Global Domination。

点评 你不加字幕我是听不懂那标准的挪威口音。。。

      Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell, the filmmakes behind "Until The Light Takes Us" — a feature-length documentary about black metal — will guest on "The ParaFactor" on Thursday, January 7, 2010 at 10:00 p.m. EST.

"The ParaFactor" can be heard every Thursday night between 9:00 p.m. and midnight EST at www.theparafactor.com.

The story is infamous. It begins like this: In the late '80s and early '90s, a small underground scene of Norwegian metal musicians was forming. At the same time, Norwegian churches started to burn. As reporters and police scrambled for answers, church after church went up in flames. The authorities had no leads until musician Varg "Count Grishnackh" Vikernes, a complex thinker with an unconventional set of extreme nationalistic, anti-Christian and anti-Semitic beliefs, took credit. He was held for questioning long enough for the media to run with a largely fabricated story.

Spurred on by lurid reports of Satanic rituals, abductions and sacrifices, other young men began to appropriate the idea of black metal. Taking cues from Grishnackh, and finding encouragement in the man many thought of as the scene's godfather, Øystein "Euronymous" Aarseth, they began a rash of copycat church burnings and other serious crimes. This lead to wider media coverage and black metal, or rather the sensationalized version of it, grew in popularity until it was available in record stores world-wide and was profiled in every major music publication, from Spin to Rolling Stone to Vice, even serving as the inspiration for popular animated shows in the U.S. Successful visual artists such as Harmony Korine and Bjarne Melgaard (both interviewed in the film) are now recontextualizing black metal as contemporary art in international exhibitions.

Part modern art movement, part terrorist movement, part rock scene, black metal has many meanings to many people and is fraught with misperceptions. "Until The Light Takes Us" gives the originators the chance to reveal, in their own words, what it was all about. Far from a 'rockumentary", the film is a thoughtful examination of this enigmatic movement, the impact it has had on the world and the lasting effect the world has had on its creators.

Featuring the music of: BLACK DICE, BOARDS OF CANADA, BURZUM, DARKTHRONE, ENSLAVED, GORGOROTH, LESSER, MAYHEM, MUM, SUNN 0))), THORNS, ULVER.

"Until the Light Takes Us" is directed by Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell, whose collaborative visual, installation and video art has been shown in galleries and museums in New York, Europe, and Japan.

For more information, visit www.myspace.com/blackmetalmovie.

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Why don't those people responsible for that movie just posted it online for everyone to see? I know they must recoup on their production costs but screening it drop by drop fro so long will only make people forget about it...

I couldnt agree more. This thing has been dragging out for FAR too long

I 've been hearing and reading about (not studying) the black metal scene for some time now, and this is the first I've heard of this band.
must be the source material.

is good but overrated. the film makers are not even into the music and it shows.

overall, decent, but don't get your hopes up

我在读大学时背叛了我的男友，后来他离开了我。他是个对我特别好的人，太多的关心，太多的纵容。而我是个自以为善良聪明其实却极其愚蠢自私的人。那时，我虽然心里对他感情极深，却莫名其妙的（或许我骨子里是个坏人）一点也不知道珍惜，反而时常伤他的心。

直到他真的离开了我，才意识到自己的问题。于是这两年又生活在深深地自责之中。以前他对我的好，我当时没什么反应，现在却在记忆中清晰的要命，每一点细节，都要我好揪心。而我做的伤他心的事，更让我痛苦的无法自拔。

不知道自己为什么是个这么“贱”的人。真的现在每时每刻都极度的憎恨自己。恨不得自己马上死去。可是想想父母只有我一个孩子，我不能丢下他们。而且神也反对自杀。那么，就只能这样活着折磨自己了，只有这样折磨自己是我应得的惩罚。

我也跟主祷告，求主赦免我的罪。可是，即使主能赦免我的罪，我自己也永远无法原谅自己。更重要的事，过去的罪已经犯下，伤害再也无法弥补。我完全因为自己的糊涂失去了我爱的人。

这样绝望的活下去，生活完全被悔恨淹没，对任何别的事都提不起兴趣。这样也不过是慢性自杀吧。我不希望神原谅我，我希望他狠狠地惩罚我。

慢慢的拯救我吧

我要做世界上最美丽的女孩子
我要做世界上最可爱的公主

只有这样，我才能保护我自己的王子
白色的裙子朵朵圈起来，嘘，王子正在安静的睡着，我要好好的保护他，直到这个世界的尽头.

如果这个世界被大雨淹没，你应该怎么办？
不要紧哦，亲爱的，我和你手握着手，不会分离，直到寒冷浸泡到我们的尸体为止，但是即使那样，我也不会和你分离^_^