False Start
Faux départ
FILM • 23 MIN • ARABIC • 2015
This film by French-Moroccan artist Yto Barrada observes the elaborate fossil industry in Morocco. Paying homage to the 'preparators' in the arid region between the Atlas Mountains and the Sahara Desert, whose intrepid work is fueling a thriving trade in artifacts real, faux and hybrid, False Start…
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- Catalogued entity (metadata)
- Unattributed (public metadata)
- Country of origin
- Morocco
- Catalogued
- 2026-07-08
- Registry ID
- MRR-2015-FLM-810045
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