从异教徒重新enactors失败公社，黑色金属音乐节北极隐士，和永远的黄金时刻北极光，“要抵挡黑暗咒语”是研成精神存在的可能性越来越世俗西内 文化。在最好的意义上的参与人种学，法术编排，努力在过去，现在和未来的混合文档到非演员的现有斯堪的纳维亚景观中的操作;这是经验的记录中提出了超越的信念生活在现在的一个可行的成果。

　　From pagan re-enactors to failed communes, black metal festivals to Arctic hermits, and the forever Golden Hour to the Northern Lights, 'A Spell to Ward off the Darkness' is an inquiry into the possibilities of a spiritual existence within an increasingly secular Western culture. A participatory ethnography in the best possible sense, A SPELL choreographs the actions of non-actors within existing Scandinavian landscapes in an effort to arrive at a hybrid document of the past, present, and future; it is a record of experience that proposes belief in transcendence as a viable outcome of living in the now。