Our Ark
OUR ARK premiered at IDFA's Short Competition 2021, and was included in their Focus: Bright Future program last November. Since then, it was awarded Best Short Film at Istanbul International Film Festival and selected for Hot Docs, True/False FF, MOMI First Look, Glasgow Short Film Festival, Imagine Science Film Festival, Taiwan International Documentary Festival, DOCUFEST, Rooftop Films, and others.
"a mind-boggling techno-utopian vision”
- Film Quarterly
“an apocalyptic dispatch on the simulacrum”
- ARTFORUM
“Sober, scientific, futuristic, even politically incorrect”
- Hedonismo Audiovisual
“a Noah’s ark, prepared for the aftermath of the upcoming ecological, political and humanitarian catastrophe.”
- Talking Shorts
Directed by:
Deniz Tortum and Sister Sylvester
Production Company:
Institute of Time
Producers:
Firat Sezgin
Ecegül Bayram
Music
: Alican Çamcı
Installation at the Museum of the Moving Image, NYC as part of First Look Festival, 2022
Outdoor screening at Greenwood Cemetery, as part of Rooftop Films
Screenings:
TIRANA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Albania
BAFICIArgentinaHot DocsCanada
Regent Theatre in Picton, Ontario, Canada
Beijing International Film Festival, China
Academia Film Olomouc, Czech Republic
SINFF Savonlinna International Nature Film Festival, Finland
Filmreihe Köln, Germany
Interfilm - Berlin, Germany
Kasseler Film Festival, Germany
KFFK/Kurzfilmfestival Köln
N°17 - New Aesthetic, Germany
Mubi, Germany
Oberhausen Kurzfilmtage, Germany
Winterwerft Germany
Aegean Film Festival (with Tampere ), Greece
Dokufest Kosovo
Vilnius Film Festival Kino pavasaris, Lithuania
Green Film Award of GFN, Mexico
Guanajuato International Film Festival, Mexico
Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam, NL
European Science in the City Festival - Leiden Shorts 2022, NL
EYE Filmmuseum - Eye on Art
NLEYE Research Labs programme - Curated Short Film Programme, NL
Go-short International Short Film Festival Nijmegen - Official Selection 2022, NL
Go-short International Short Film Festival Nijmegen - Special Program, NL
Het Documentaire Paviljoen - IDFA, NL
InScience Dutch International Science Film festival, NL
Leiden Shorts, NL
Media Art Festival Arnhem, NL
Museumnacht 2023 @ Eye, NL
Silbersalz Science Film festival, NL
CinemaARC event - Glasgow Science Festival, Scotland
Glasgow Science Festival, Scotland
Glasgow Short Film Festival, Scotland
Bistre reke, Serbia
5th Seoul Animal Film Festival, South Korea, Seoul
Eco Film Festival, South Korea
FICMEC: The International Environmental Film Festival of the Canary Islands, Spain
Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival, Switzerland
Taiwan International Documentary Festival, Taiwan
212 Photography Istanbul , TR
Adana Altın Koza Film Festivali, TR
Antep Kısa Film Festivali, TR
Ayvalık FFTR
Bozcaada BIFED, TR
Diyarbakır Mordem Sanat, TR
Documentarİst İstanbul Belgesel Günleri, XR Yok Oluş İsyanı Bölümü, Gösterim Seçkisi, TR
İfsak, TR
International Izmir Short Film Festival, TR
Istanbul Film Festivali - Best National Film Award, TR
Kırık, TR
Mubi, TR
TRUçan Süpürge, TR
Uşak FF, TR
London Short Film Festival, UK
41 North Film Festival - Michigan Tech Uni, USA
Boston Türk Filmleri, USA
ByDesign Festival, USA
Crested Butte Film Fest, USA
Emerson College Environmental Short screening, USA
Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital, USA
First Look MOMI, USA
Glimmerglass Film Days, USA
Green Screen Environmental Film Festival (T&T), USA
Greenwich Village Film Festival, USA
Imagine Science, USA
Maryland Film Festival, USA
Mimesis Documentary Festival, USA
Planet in Focus International Environmental Film Festival, USA
Rockaway Film Festival, USA
Rooftop Films, USA
SXSW 2024 - Shadowtime Exhibition, USA
Tacoma Film Festival, USA
True False, USA
Vimeo staff picks, international
ESFN platform (thisisshort.com)