Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub Film Retrospective  

A film in two parts: France and Egypt. In the first part, Danièle Huillet reads from Friedrich Engels’ letter about the poverty of peasants before the French revolution; in the second part Bahgat Elnadi reads from his book on anti-colonialism and class struggle in Egypt. But it is the landscape that is the main protagonist. Huillet: “We were interested in seeing what traces remain today and what was swept away and left no trace.” Straub: “What is recounted: struggles, revolts, defeats, delays and anticipations, statistics; what is represented: history, topography, geography, geology, light, lights, wind and clouds, land (transformed and worked by men), traces – erased or still visible – and sky (lots of sky)”.