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