| Until the Light Takes Us | |
| Director: | Aaron Aites Audrey Ewell |
| Producer: | Aaron Aites Tyler Brodie Audrey Ewell Gill Holland Frederick Howard |
| Starring: | Gylve "Fenriz" Nagell Varg "Count Grishnackh" Vikernes Jan Axel "Hellhammer" Blomberg Kjetil-Vidar "Frost" Haraldstad Harmony Korine Bjarne Melgaard Kristoffer "Garm" Rygg Bård "Faust" Eithun |
| Cinematography: | Audrey Ewell Odd Reinhardt Nicolaysen |
| Editing: | Andrew Ford |
| Studio: | Artists Public Domain Field Pictures The Group Entertainment |
| Distributor: | Variance Films |
| Runtime: | 93 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
Until the Light Takes Us is a 2008 American documentary film about early Norwegian black metal, directed by Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell. The film premiered at the AFI Film Festival in 2008, a year before it was released in theaters.
Variance Films acquired the theatrical rights to the film in the U.S. and released it in New York City on December 4, 2009. The film grossed $7,246 on a single screen in its first week, the second highest per-screen gross of any debuting film at the time (behind Up in the Air).
Until the Light Takes Us received a 54 out of 100 score on Metacritic[1] and a 46% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.[2]
Andrew O'Hehir of Salon.com called the film "crafty and compelling".[3] Nick Pinkerton of The Village Voice wrote, "The filmmakers seem cowed into obeisance by their subjects. Varg's last onscreen appearance is accompanied by a montage fitting a schoolyard crush, and the film's title is the translation of Burzum's fourth album, Hvis lyset tar oss. [...] [the film] arrives a decade too late to add much."[4]