Until The Light Takes Us

We are plunged into the world of “black metal”: an ideological movement/music genre comprised of metal musicians, murderers, church-burners, and suicide victims.  The film examines black metal through the eyes of the scene’s leaders, who tried to change the world using music and symbolic acts of violence. Three men lead the scene: one is dead, one’s in jail for killing him and inciting a wave of church arson, and one continues to release albums in the genre they created. Part (post)modern art movement, part terrorist cell, and part rock scene, the film tells a story like no other. (2009, 93 min, digital video)