Ägypten is an almost silent film about deaf mutes and their sign language. Similar to the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, sign language links the symbolic terminology of words with the mimetic and analogous representations of graphic gestures. Sober black and white scenes show how 'shark', 'widow', 'Marilyn Monroe', a James Bond sequence, a Viennese song or the account of a treasure hunt undertaken by two holidaymakers in Egypt, look in sign language. Resetarits' film is a very modest indication, an introduction to an unfamiliar way of experiencing the world, where one sees sounds without hearing them.

Drehli Robnik