‘There is magic in the world. There’s something bigger’: the ecstatic visions of musician Clarissa Connelly

‘Letting go of a part of yourself and becoming something new’ … Clarissa Connelly. Photograph: Amy Gwatkin

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Every Christmas, Clarissa Connelly rewatches Ingmar Bergman’s Fanny and Alexander, waiting for the scene in which Ismael shows Alexander a mummy and their faces turn in unison. “It gives me an experience like there is magic in the world, that there’s something bigger,” says the Scotland-born, Denmark-raised musician, 31. “It opens up the top of my head. Then my small, messy world becomes smaller and easier to comprehend and be a bit more careless about.”