A brand new capital – in the middle of the desert! And an Icon building – a Taj Mahal or a Sydney Operahouse, that will be the gateway to the city and a symbol to the entire world! In this film we follow the Norwegian Architectural firm Snøhetta and its director Kjetil Thorsen in their bid for adventurous and ground-breaking architectural challenges in the Arab sands of Ras Al Khaimah.
about the director: Eirin Gjørv, director of the Desert Castle, is a graduate of the Norwegian National Film School. Before she started working with films she had also graduated from The University of Oslo studying Social- Anthropology, Geography and World Religions as well as working with refugees for the Norwegian Peoples Aid. She has directed numerous TV- drama episodes and short films as well as 11 short documentaries. The Desert Castle is her first 50 minute documentary.
Eirin Gjørv | Lightsource Film Productions | Norway | 2007 | 50 minutes | DIGIBETA | English & Norwegian with Chinese & English subtitles