Watch Film-Essay on the Euphrates Dam Online

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Film-Essay on the Euphrates Dam

Film-Essay on the Euphrates Dam Online

  • Genres: Documentary
  • Release Date: 01/01/1970
  • Duration : 13 minutes
  • Director: Omar Amiralay
  • Production: Syrian Arab Television
  • Country: Syrian Arab Republic
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Overview:

The construction of a dam on the Euphrates River is an example of a country’s economic development. Through grandly composed images, rhythmic editing, and aestheticized details, the director demonstrates his admiration for the interwar avant-garde. The film is a celebration of the new, while at the same time showing a traditional way of life and calling attention to working conditions; it is a refrain-like evocation of an arid country that explores the difficult lot of Syria’s rural inhabitants.

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