False Start

This film by FrenchMoroccan 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 is a rebuke to the fetishistic thirst for foreign objects a sly meditation on authenticity and a paean to creativity