Noha’s Ark (Kashtiy-e Nouh)
Soudabeh Babagap
Born in 1971 in Iran. Immigrated from southern Iran after the Iraqi-imposed war. Graduated from the Islamic Training Center of Filmmaking in cinema directing. Besides filmmaking, she has also been involved in films as a writer, painter, poet, assistant director, scriptwriter and researcher. Works published in the book A Selection of Works.
This is what she says about her approach to the way she took it for filming Noah's Ark:
I think the visual structure of Noah’s Ark is the direct result of the characters of my film—the canal, the ruins, the burnt trunks of the palms, and the drowned ships. These characters brought about the visual structure of the film. Moreover, as soon as I think of a subject, I imagine it in a specific visual form and gradually develop and refine it in my mind, just like what you experience in painting and poetry when form and content come to you at the same time.
Produced by the Iranian Young Cinema Society, the 26-minute documentary studies the aftermaths of sea wars on the southern Iranian coast, particularly the fate of the wrecked ships Mina, Marjan, and Farnaz.With its inventive soundtrack, this film gives a
sometimes rhythmical, sometimes tragic interpretation
of the fate of these discarded wrecks and the affection
shown by the owners who search for them, while
showing reconstruction work using primitive shipbuilding
techniques and the scars of war that can still be seen around.
http://www.yidff.jp/2003/cat037/03c049-2-e.html
Beside the Yamagata documentary films 2003 festival in Japan, “Noah’s Ark” among others, also competed at the 13th Golden Knight International Film Festival held in May 2004 in Irkutsk in southern Russia. It was also screened at Golden Pulpit Festival http://mfmk.ru/m/eng/index08.php
It won the Golden Medallion of Belgrade for The Best Foreign Film http://www.shortfilmfest.org/51st/eng/4winn.htm#mplak
It is showcased among films produced by female directors in Iran, See page 107 http://www.scribd.com/doc/7187641/Filmhaye-Sakhte-Shode-Tavasote-Zanan
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