This video of marble being extracted is oddly mesmerising

Huge chunks of it, all directed by 'The Chief'.

This video of marble being extracted is oddly mesmerising

Filmed in the Carrara region of Northern Italy - which is famous for the quality of its marble, this excerpt from Yuri Ancarani's documentary 'Il Capo' on the work of a marble quarry is eerily beautiful.

Huge chunks of the snowy marble are knocked off by heavy machinery but it's all guided by the delicate hand movements of Il Capo - The Chief.

The quarry boss almost looks like a opera conductor as he directs his workers to carefully - and then dramatically - free the slabs of marble from the mountainside.

Ancarani told Nowness.com that he was taken by watching the chief work:

“How he can move gigantic marble blocks using enormous excavators, but his own movements are light, precise and determined."

It's an art.

[Hat Tip: Sploid]

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