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‘Taste of Cement’ Is an Impressionistic Portrait of Syrian Workers in Exile
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‘Taste of Cement’ Is an Impressionistic Portrait of Syrian Workers in Exile

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Christopher Campbell
Sep 16, 2017
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Many documentary filmmakers find their most compelling artistic truth in the “sense of place.” Richard Leacock talked about the “feeling of being there” as a governing principle of documentary, part of a tradition linking Robert Flaherty’s work to Direct Cinema and beyond. The “sense of place,” what preservationists call genius loci, is a globally reson…

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