Germany 1971, 76 mins, German with subtitles
Herzog’s completely non-narrative movie is cast in the mock-heroic form of an epic poem. Shot in and around the Sahara, its images evoke the idea of the desert as a terminal beach, littered with colonial debris, spanning extremes of poverty and misery, haunted by mirages. It’s the nearest thing yet to a genuinely political science-fiction movie. Brilliantly original, utterly haunting, and featuring the music of the dearly missed Leonard Cohen.
The screening will be
introduced by Dr David Sorfa, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Edinburgh.
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