Film-maker Werner Herzog sits in the ark built聽for Ian Cheney鈥檚 film Wicked Delicate Films
Ian Cheney
Sandbox Films, in some US cinemas from 23 February
“HUMANS don’t like forgetting,” says an archivist from the Al Ahmed Mahmoud Library in Chinguetti, Mauritania. Located on an old pilgrimage route to Mecca, Chinguetti is now disappearing under the spreading Sahara desert. Not for the first time: there have been two previous cities on this site, the first built in AD 777, and both vanished under the dunes.
Ian Cheney, a documentary-maker from Maine, visits the Arab-Berber libraries…
