Director: Peter Webber
Producer Company: Qatar National Museum, Doha Film Institute
Cinematographer: Paulo Pérez
Year: 2019
Genre: Documentary / Special Project
The film, directed by Peter Webber, is a dramatic and powerful portrait of the unification of the tribes of Qatar on the Qatari Peninsula under Sheik Jassim Bin Hamad Al Thani. It encompasses the themes of tribal movements, war and battle, Al Wajba and unification and one people, one nation. Showing in Gallery 8 of the Museum across a 15m x 7m wall, the audience view the film at just 3-4 metres. This full immersion meant it had to be produced at very high resolution and projected with ultra-fine detail, ensuring that no part of the image is subject to pixilation. This meant the multi-layer composites, which feature in every scene, had to remain live throughout the 9 months post production period whilst projection testing was carried out.