NOWNESS recently delivered a breathtaking excerpt from filmmaker Yuri Ancarani's documentary Il Capo (The Chief). Spending nearly a year filming on the Monte Bettolgi in the Carrara region of the Apuan Alps, in Northwest Italy, the Italian director followed a marble quarry boss as he guided his men through the extraction process, using a silent language of hand gestures. "I was so taken by the chief, watching him work," says Ancarani, stating "how he can move gigantic marble blocks using enormou...
NOWNESS recently delivered a breathtaking excerpt from filmmaker Yuri Ancarani's documentary Il Capo (The Chief). Spending nearly a year filming on the Monte Bettolgi in the Carrara region of the Apuan Alps, in Northwest Italy, the Italian director followed a marble quarry boss as he guided his men through the extraction process, using a silent language of hand gestures. "I was so taken by the chief, watching him work," says Ancarani, stating "how he can move gigantic marble blocks using enormou...
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