Spells of the Dark
The sixth episode of The Bandwagon, Sabzian’s irregular series of film-related mixes, by filmmaker Manon De Sutter.
Tracklist
1. Guy Montassut - Bassae (Jean-Daniel Pollet, 1964)
2. Ridder - Het zwaard van Ardoewaan (Bert Struys, 1972)
3. ‘A Dream About Waves’ from Pieces for Noise, Silence & Voice (Onmaan/Geraldine, 2020)
4. Praying - Ran (Akira Kurosawa, 1985)
5. Voice - Possession (Andrzej Żuławski, 1981)
6. ‘Leed’s House’ from The Reds - Manhunter (Michael Mann, 1986)
7. Crows, man screaming - Touki-Bouki (Djibril Diop Mambéty, 1973)
8. Hail Mary - Black Narcissus (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1947)
9. ‘Janitor of Lunacy’ from Desertshore (Nico, 1970) and dialogue - L’eau froide (Olivier Assayas, 1994)
10. Zdeněk Liška - Ovoce stromu rajských jíme [Fruit of Paradise] (Věra Chytilová, 1970)
11. Girl humming - Casa de Lava [Down to Earth] (Pedro Costa, 1994)
12. Pontian lyra - Taxidi sta Kythira [Voyage to Cythera] (Theo Angelopoulos, 1984)
13. Displaced persons - Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (Jonas Mekas, 1972)
14. Ry Cooder - Streets of Fire (Walter Hill, 1984)
15. Dialogue on the train - Liebe ist kälter als der Tod (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1970)
16. Girl singing - Al Dhakira al Khasba [Fertile Memory] (Michel Khleifi, 1980)
17. ‘18:02’ from Fowl Tapes II (Luke Fowler, 2013)
18. Street seller - from the collection of sound artist Felix Blume
19. Je préfère vous abîmer les yeux - Traité de bave et d’éternité (Isidore Isou, 1951)
20. Music - La noire de... (Ousmane Sembène, 1966)
21. Coca cola - U.S. Go Home (Claire Denis, 1994)
22. ‘With All Hands’ from The Street and the Sea (Priscilla Quinby and Gavin Gervis, 1976)
23. ‘Prophecy Theme’ from Brian Eno - Dune (David Lynch, 1984)
24. Boy in metro - Boy Meets Girl (Leos Carax, 1984)
25. ‘Lector’s Cell’ from The Reds - Manhunter (Michael Mann, 1986)
26. Ambient - Twin Peaks Season 3 (David Lynch, 2017)
27. Breathing, music - O Sangue [Blood] (Pedro Costa, 1989)
28. Computer voice - My Crasy Life (Jean-Pierre Gorin, 1992)
29. Man screaming - Ran (Akira Kurosawa, 1985)
30. ‘Epicedium’ from Drenched Lands (Locrian, 2009)
31. Strumming on snare instrument - Al Dhakira al Khasba [Fertile Memory] (Michel Khleifi, 1980)
32. Lament of Mary & Jesus at cross - Acto da Primavera [Rite of Spring] (Manoel de Oliveira, 1963)
33. ‘Charlie’ from Crust (Crust, 1990) - Slacker (Richard Linklater, 1990)
34. Angry - Milestones (John Douglas and Robert Kramer, 1975)
35. Trevor Mathison - Who Needs a Heart (John Akomfrah, 1991)
36. ‘Intro (Harmonica Man)’ from Dawnrazor (Fields of the Nephilim, 1987) - sampling from Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968)
37. Woman running - Mauvais sang (Leos Carax, 1986)
38. Tangerine Dream - The Keep (Michael Mann, 1983)
39. Woman’s voice, scream - Otoshiana [Pitfall] (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1962)
40. Screams - Possession (Andrzej Żuławski, 1981)
41. ‘Mother Owl, Father Ocean’ from Thrice Woven (Wolves in the Throne Room, 2017)
42. Helicopter - Few of Us (Sharunas Bartas, 1996)
43. Guitar - Mia aioniotita kai mia mera [Eternity and a Day] (Theo Angelopoulos, 1998)
44. Interview - Pedro Costa talking about Cavalo Dinheiro at Locarno Film Festival, 2014
45. ‘The Overthrow’ from Dreamhatcher (MDCIII, 2018)
46. You should quit - Slacker (Richard Linklater, 1990)
47. Naomi Watts screaming “No” - King Kong (Peter Jackson, 2005)
48. Car accident - Blow Out (Brian De Palma, 1981)
49. ‘Into Thin Air’ from Daisy Darkpark - sampling from The Tempest (Derek Jarman, 1979)
50. Radio voice - Born in Flames (Lizzie Borden, 1983)
51. Voice, television, shooting - La cérémonie (Claude Chabrol, 1995)
52. Whispering - Boy Meets Girl (Leos Carax, 1984)
53. ‘Beneath the Mask’ from Demo 2011 (Bell Witch, 2011) - sampling from The Masque of the Red Death (Roger Corman, 1964)
54. Dialogue - Haut bas fragile (Jacques Rivette, 1995)
55. ‘Elephant Mosquito’, ‘Danse of the Dead’ from The Illness (Spectre, 1995)
56. Voice - Touki-Bouki (Djibril Diop Mambéty, 1973)
57. ‘Armenia’ from Zeichnungen des Patienten O.T. (Einstürzende Neubauten, 1983) - Heat (Michael Mann, 1995)
58. Toru Takemitsu - Ran (Akira Kurosawa, 1985)
59. Parseltongue - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Chris Columbus, 2002)
60. ‘Dreams’ from Landfall (Laurie Anderson and Kronos Quartet, 2018)
61. Michel Legrand - La piscine (Jacques Deray, 1969)
62. Jamais plus - La noire de... (Ousmane Sembène, 1966)
63. ‘Ruff Kutz Side One’ from Ruff Kutz (Spectre, 2015)
64. Percussion - Touki-Bouki (Djibril Diop Mambéty, 1973)
65. Woman singing - La noire de... (Ousmane Sembène, 1966)
66. ‘Noise/piano piece inspired by this mix’ from Methven
67. Voices - Possession (Andrzej Żuławski, 1981)
68. Noise - Outer Space (Peter Tscherkassky, 1999)
69. Boy thrown in water - Koridorius [The Corridor] (Sharunas Bartas, 1995)
70. Woman whispering - Otoshiana [Pitfall] (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1962)
71. End of fight - Ying xiong [Hero] (Zhang Yimou, 2002)
72. ‘The Hills of Abruzzi’, ‘How Blue Sky Was’ from Simon Fisher Turner - Caravaggio (Derek Jarman, 1986)
73. Driving - Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt, 2016)
74. Benjamin Britten - Beau travail (Claire Denis, 1999)
75. Yelling, music translation and ‘Winter’ from Sparrow Oratorium (Sergey Kuryokhin, 1993) - Sun Dog (Dorian Jespers, 2020)
76. ‘Kumushki’ from Olga Fedoseevna Sergeev - Nostalgia (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1983)
77. Eyes - Rosemary’s Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968)
78. ‘Uncut Gems’ from Daniel Lopatin - Uncut Gems (Benny Safdie & Josh Safdie, 2019)
79. Bobby Beausoleil - Lucifer Rising (Kenneth Anger, 1972)
80. Sang - Pierrot le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)