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Salah Elmur: Fixing Time

Matteo Lonardi · USA · Documentary · 12 min · 91K views

In his Cairo studio, Sudanese painter Salah Elmur draws on memories of Khartoum to create dreamlike images of the home he longs to return to.

An intimate, poetic look at how an exiled artist paints memory and longing for a lost home.

Episode [296]: From his studio in Cairo, artist Salah Elmur sifts through memories held in the “boxes of his mind” to paint dream-like images of life in Khartoum, Sudan, the home he longs to return to.

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