Sinai Field Mission
Frederick Wiseman has once again brought an issue into focus. And we know and care a little bit more because of it.
-- James Brown, Los Angeles Times
Sinai Field Mission
SINAI FIELD MISSION shows the routine activities of the diplomats and electronics technicians who operate the U.S. Sinai Field Mission, the early warning system established in 1976 to help facilitate the disengagement between Egypt and Israel after the 1973 war. The major purpose of the Mission is to monitor the approaches to strategic passes and to verify the operations of the Egyptian and Israeli surveillance stations in the Sinai Buffer Zone.
Genre
Documentary
Web Site
Runtime
127
Language
English
Director
Frederick Wiseman
FEATURED REVIEW
James Brown, Los Angeles Times
Wiseman gives us a community. We sense the isolation, the harsh climate, the numbing drudgery of the paperwork… by filming the story of Sinai Field Mission from the inside out, by incorporating all of the elements that make it up rather than a rote narrative of what it does and how it came to be ...
Played at
Laemmle Virtual Cinema 10.28.20 - 11.03.20
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