2020 · documentary
Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb
Directed by James Tovell1h 53m2020
This documentary follows a team of local archaeologists excavating never before explored passageways, shafts, and tombs, piecing together the secrets of Egypt’s most significant find in almost 50 years in Saqqara.
Our read: Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb (2020) reads as a warm, steady, grounded documentary entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle documentary, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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- intimate
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