PLAY WITH THE DEVIL – BECOMING ZEAL & ARDOR - Trailer (2023)

Play with the Devil – Becoming Zeal & Ardor - Official Trailer (2023) With his band Zeal & Ardor Swiss-American musician Manuel Gagneux is catapulted overnight from the underground to the big stages of the world. The bold mix of Black Metal and old work songs and field hollers by African-American slaves – his answer to a racist provocation on the Internet – is politically explosive and breaking all kinds of taboos. But being praised as a new kind of leader by his fans pushes the introverted artist into an existential crisis. Will he find a way to protect his creative integrity and deal with oversized expectations? A film by Olivier Joliat & Matthias Will, CH, 2023 Produced by soap factory & RecycledTv in coproduction with SRF ©soap factory & RecycledTv 2023