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Detailed description :Egypt

The Rebirth of a Coptic Church

Director(s): Denis Gravouil

When the Department of Egyptian Antiquities at the Louvre reopened, it boasted new exhibition spaces devoted to the Coptic collection. Here, visitors can discover a real-size reconstruction of the vestiges of the south church of the Bawit monastery. This short documentary film follows the various stages in the elaboration of this reconstruction.

Genre

Documentary

Copyright

1997

Length

16 minutes

Producer(s)

Cyril de Fouquières, Artefilm ; Pierre Coural, Musée du Louvre

Selections / Awards

Selected for the Icronos International Archaeological Film Festival, Bordeaux, 1998; Selected for the International Archaeological Film Festival of Rovereto, Italy, 1999