Throughout the 1930s, alongside Joseph Hackin and architect Jean Carl, Marie-Alice, known as Ria, participated in the excavation expeditions in Afghanistan, on the sites of Begram and Bamiyan, from where came a large part of the Afghan Guimet Museum collections. Ria filmed the archaeological sites and the first Afghan landscapes in black and white and then in 16mm color devices (Kodachrome). She died at 55, along with her husband, in 1941, when leaving for a mission in Asia, on board the ship Jonathan Holt, which was torpedoed by the Germans near the coast of Brittany. The screening session will be accompanied by a sound track selected by Vincent Moon and Priscilla Telmon especially for the film, covering various periods
of Afghan music.