Until The Light Takes Us

Until The Light Takes Us
A Film Directed By AARON AITES and AUDREY EWELL



Until The Light Takes Us tells the story of black metal.
Part music scene and part cultural uprising, black metal rose to worldwide notoriety in the mid-nineties when a rash of suicides, murders, and church burnings accompanied the explosive artistic growth and output of a music scene that would forever redefine what heavy metal is and what it stands for to other musicians, artists and music fans world-wide. Until The Light Takes Us goes behind the highly sensationalized media reports of "Satanists running amok in Europe" to examine the complex and largely misunderstood principles and beliefs that led to this rebellion against both Christianity and modern culture.

To capture this on film, directors Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell moved to Norway and lived with the musicians for several years, building relationships that allowed them to create a surprisingly intimate portrait of this violent, but ultimately misunderstood, movement. The result is a poignant, moving story that’s as much about the idea that reality is composed of whatever the most people believe, regardless of what’s actually true, as it is about a music scene that blazed a path of murder and arson across the northern sky.

Marble House

Each note threw my every cell........

I cut your nails and comb your hair
I carry you down the stairs
I wanted to see right through from the other side
I wanted to walk a trail with no end in sight

The moment we believe that we have never met
Another kind of love it's easy to forget
When we are all alone then we do both agree
We have a thing in common this was meant to be

You close my eyes and soothe my ears
You heal my wounds and dry my tears
On the inside of this marble house I grow
And the seeds I sow will grow up prisoners too

The moment we believe that we have never met
Another kind of love it's easy to forget
When we are all alone then we do both agree
We have a thing in common this was meant to be

Now where's your shoulder
What is it's name
What's your scent
Say it again
If it goes faster can you still follow me
It must be safe when it's on TV

I raise my hands to heaven of curiosity
I don't know what to ask for
What has it got for me?
The others say we're hiding
It's as forward as can be
Some things I do for money
Some things I do for free

Dream of Wild Horses

Failure

"Failure is not falling, just refusing to get up."

Chinese proverb.

"Falling August" by Michael Zavros

Black

"Black is modest but arrogant at the same time."

" Black is lazy and easy - but mysterious. It means that many things go together , yet it takes different aspects in many fabrics. You need to have black to have a silhouette. Black can swallow light, or make things look sharp. But above all black says this - 'I don´t bother you - don´t bother me'."

BLACK

Quote By YOHJI YAMAMOTO


Black is the colour of objects that do not emit or reflect light in any part of the visible spectrum; they absorb all such frequencies of light. Although black is sometimes described as an "achromatic", or hueless, color, in practice it can be considered a color.

Darkness, secrecy, and mystery; death, rebellion, elegance, silence and concealment, non-conformity, individuality.

Are you thinking?

"Thinking is more interesting than knowing,
but less interesting than looking"

GOETHE

THINK for Fuck's Sake

Thorne Birds

"There's a story... a legend, about a bird that sings just once in its life. From the moment it leaves its nest, it searches for a thorn tree... and never rests until it's found one. And then it sings... more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. And singing, it impales itself on the longest, sharpest thorn. But, as it dies, it rises above its own agony, to outsing the lark and the nightingale. The thorn bird pays its life for just one song, but the whole world stills to listen, and God in his heaven smiles."

1983

Quote From THE THORNE BIRDS

Simplicity

There is something about how simplistic and tranquil Olaf Otto Becker's photographs are, they evoke that feeling of peace that everyone strives to see or be surrounded by in their lives. The Greenland light (where the majority of his photos are taken) is the ideal setting for this minimal heartfelt feeling, helping Olaf to capture every slight movement and crevice that the rugged landscape offered up to him. No doubt as Becker floated around in his rubber dingy, as this was the safest way to navigate the drift ice, felt this feeling of being at 'one' with the ever-changing ice and rock landsape.

Everytime I look at his images I cannot help but wish that I could one day see such marvels of the natural world, before they disappear; if experts on the subject are to be believed. I would cherish the solidarity every second, moving from place to place without seeing a single person for days and living in the 23hr sunlight admiring what is soon to be nonexistent.



"I always ask myself what I essentially see, right there, right then. I try to understand what I see. I look for something that speaks by itself without captions. I try to let the landscape speak. I am not interested in things I have already seen. I try to look at something as though my eyes had opened for the first time and I try to understand what I see."



Quote And Photographs By OLAF OTTO BECKER

Hydrotheraphy

Hydrotherapy, formerly called hydropathy involves the use of water for soothing pains and treating diseases. Hydrotherapy, in general, dates back to ancient cultures from China, Japan (onsen), Egypt, Greek and most recently, Roman civilizations.

Egyptian royalty bathed with essential oils and flowers, while Romans had communal public baths for their citizens. It is used to treat musculoskeletal disorders such as arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, or spinal cord injuries and in patients suffering burns, spasticity, stroke or paralysis.

It is also used to treat orthopedic and neurological conditions in horses and dogs and also to improve fitness, but mainly, I feel, it can be used to treat disorders of the heart.

A treatment for mending sorrows threw the sweet dispersion of heat as the water dissolves it's warmth into your body and slowly creates a sacred ritual of pure sensuality. Escape.

Glass House

" I shall continue living in my glass house where you can always see who comes to call; where everything hanging from the ceiling and on the walls stays where it is as if by magic, where I sleep nights in a glass bed, under glass sheets, where who I am will sooner or later appear etched by a diamond." -André Breton

Gifts in Disguise

Life is so strange; how vast the amount of up's and down's, dreams and realities, places and people. The endless amount of information, back and forth and all around us. The abundant unanswered questions crossing threw mind like a cross-stitching spider.

The intense amount of love and pain we feel and give. The way we respire or expire at the corner of our lovers' lips. That selfless, burning desire, connected towards irrevocable love. Sweet like a butterfly in marmalade.

What’s done is done. What goes on, goes on. The days turn into nights and consecutively, nights to day, and threw this process I feel the heaviness of how much has changed and how much remains.
How there are some things in life you simply can not run from.
Things we are forced to look at with 'opened' eyes: exceptionally vulnerable and receptive eyes.
I am nor a fatalist or a great realist at all, even if I say I do know where this journey leads, but indeed, I have breathed a heavy dose of an unadulterated truth.

Through trials and tribulations, remember, know, what is genuine and true. Learn, look, and see what is before you. Feel what's really there, and has never left.
Be true with yourself, to open your eyes wider, to desire more; dream more, plant your feet firmer, and/or love more selflessly. We all must start somewhere down this mysterious road, journey, or destination. The inevitable endless possibility of the new moon is awaiting us outside.

Family

This year, I found myself pleasantly surprised to see the unity my family still possesses on Thanksgiving Day. I'm grateful to be a part of a family that still remembers and laughs with one another! I'd forgotten I had this family as we all remained busy in our own lives; drowned in a sea of schedules, responsibilities, and worry. So in the spirit of Thanksgiving and in the name of family, I bring you some really awesome family portraits my friend Bexsue found on a photo blog named, We Heart It. I fell in love and inspired by them!! Photographer: Akihiro Furuta.

Urine Therapy

Urine Therapy by Silvia
How far would you go for a youthful and glowing complexion? How about drinking some of your own tinkle? Or exchanging your normal facial cleanser for a little of your own home-brew? Actually references to the use of urine for medicinal purposes can be traced to ancient Egyptian, Chinese, Aztec, and Hindu histories. Proponents also point to Proverbs 5:15 in the Old Testament of the Bible: “Drink water from thy own cistern, and the streams of thy own well.”

Well, have times really changed? Can you imagine any right-minded, modern day sophisticate engaging in a wee spot of micturition? Well, yes! Though, most people do it on the sly, of course. If one feels a vicious cold coming on why not simply drink your urine? For a brilliantly youthful complexion how about a little yellow rinse?!

Honestly, I can’t quite bring myself to do either. I really do love my Kheils but what if this is the secret? Do we hold the fountain of youth in our bladder? I mean, if tiger urine is in my perfume, why not indulge myself in my own private golden shower? In this recession, could urine therapy be 2009’s Creme de la Mer?

Thanksgiving

A day to give thanks, as well as ask for forgiveness.. Killing, enslavement, and land theft… Over 100 million Indigenous Americans were killed as a direct result of US actions. Christopher Columbus personally murdered half a million Natives. Two studies have been conducted that attempt to number the natives killed by the United
States. The first of these was sponsored by the United States government. Though, officials do not stand up to scrutiny, this therefore leads to such information
being then discounted (generally); this estimate shows between 1 million to 4 million killed. The second study was not sponsored by the US Government but was done
from independent researchers. This study estimated population reductions using later census data. Two figures are given, both low and high, at: between 10 million and 114 million Indians as a direct result of US actions. Note that Nazi Holocaust estimates are between 6 and 11 million; thereby making the Nazi Holocaust the 2nd largest mass murder of a class of people in history.