The Flood and the Mountain

Interweaving fact and fiction, myth and history, travelogue and historical documentary, The Flood and the Mountain traces the journey of the filmmaker on a would-be pilgrimage to Mt. Ararat. Following in the path of the late astronaut James Irwin, who led two expeditions in search of the remains of Noah’s ark, he inadvertently stumbles across the remains of the often catastrophic history of the surrounding territory, from the iconoclastic period of the Byzantine Empire to the Armenian Genocide of the twentieth century. At the centre of it all lies the highest peak in the region, a mountain imbued with holy status but witness to the violence of countless civilizations. The film is both an indictment of those who transpose their own order onto God and re-write history for political power, as well as a desperate first-person search for the ineffable—a portrait of an outsider lost in time.

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