On Our Way to the South Screening at 98 Weeks Project Space

The 98 Weeks Project Space is hosting a screening of the film “On Our Way to the South” by Johan van der Keuken.

Synopsis: “On Our Way to the South” is the account of a journey, a travelogue. The filmmaker leaves from Amsterdam and, two hours and 20 minutes later, loses himself completely in the Cairo crowd. He passes by Paris, the Drôme, Rome, Calabria. Those who he crosses paths with and respond to his questions have nothing in common except for this: they have accepted their environment, they don’t want anything else, they want to stay where they are.

Thus in Egypt, nothing much comes out of the interviews. One lies easily to the man with the camera. Aggrieved, he heads off to the road and starts filming the circulation. A packed train, a crowd in pyjamas, carts out of a sword-and-sandal film, cars threading slowly, astonished children, deranged animals, fine dust and, in between, faster than them, the eye of the filmmaker. Images without a stake, bath of images, images that have – finally – lost the North.