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In 1897, Isabelle Eberhardt fled from her anarchic, domineering father at the age of twenty so that she would not be burned up in his light like a moth. She left for Algeria to live as a Muslim and to create light in the darkness of herself. On the one hand she indulged in every excess, even those God forbade, on the other hand she wrote beautiful texts on the Islamic way of life. Her death was at least as bizarre as her life: in 1904, after a period of 40 years without rain, she was swept away by a tidal wave in the desert. 'There Was an Unseen Cloud Moving' is not just a factual, highly ordered biography of this fascinating woman but also an attempt to make the intensity of her short life tangible. Portrayed by six actresses, this production is as rough, unpolished and extreme as its un-Victorian source of inspiration. In this powerful, kaleidoscopic collage of archival material, from desert trip to moon-landing, fragments of feature films, photographs, acted scenes and texts, two cultures stand opposed.
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Albert Wulffers
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With: Kathleen Lynch, Su Frederich, Kate Doyle, Lisa Yashan, Ton Zummer
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