These three films appear along with November on the All the Haunts Be Ours Volume 2 set.

Boundary (2009): Set among an isolated community in a remote landscape near the Russian border, Boundary offers the sound of wind, images of spaces and a general feeling of a chill. According to its mission statement, it “evokes a space of ambiguity, a psychogeography, an absence of personal histories. It is the first installment in a tetralogy of films based on a statement by Sadeq Hedavat: “In life it is possible to become angelic, human, or animal. I have become none of these things.””

Perhaps this would be good to watch before November when viewing this set instead of an extra. Consider programming these films yourself to get in the mood for the coldness and wide open regions that you will soon be watching.

Journey Through Setomaa (1913): Estonia’s first ethnographic film, this was made by Johannes Pääsuke n his expedition to Setomaa, a South-Eastern region in Estonia. You get to see how the town celebrates its customs, as well as farming, but perhaps the most interesting thing is that the subjects are fixated on the new technology that is capturing them.

I’m always wondering what it was like when these cultures were exposed to what today is the smallest bit of technology in the phones that we all carry. Here I am, over a hundred years later, watching these people who are all gone and they look vibrant and alive, like the twinkling of stars that we see after their light has reached us long after they have been extinguished.

Midvinterblot (1946): Directed and written by Gösta Werner, this presents a Norse blood sacrifice meant to end the darkness and cold of winter and usher in the return of the sun and warmth. Also, the man under the hood is Gunnar Björnstrand, who would go to be one of Ingmar Bergman’s collaborators from 1941 to 1968, then made Fanny and Alexander with him before he died.

This is mainly a series of images — the man abut to die, the ones killing him, those that watch — all illuminated by the flames as they carry out this ritual. It looks absolutely gorgeous in its two tone simplicity and I’m shocked more metal bands haven’t just started using this behind their songs. Sweden is the home of so much wonderful metal, after all — At the Gates, Ghost, Bathory, Candlemass, Craft, Watain…

The sun is going to come out tomorrow. Of course, someone is going to have to get stabbed for that to happen. But there will be sun.

These short films are part of the new Severin box set, All the Haunts Be Ours Volume 2.

You can order this set from Severin.