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The Noon Gun

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Genre
  
Documentary, Short

Cinematography
  
Anthony Stern

Country
  
United Kingdom

Director
  
Anthony Stern

Producer
  
Sadia Sadia

Duration
  

Language
  
English

Release date
  
8 August 2004 (2004-08-08)

Writer
  
Sadia Sadia, Anthony Stern

Music director
  
Sadia Sadia, Stephen W Tayler

Screenplay
  
Anthony Stern, Sadia Sadia

The noon gun


The Noon Gun is a 2004 documentary film directed by Anthony Stern. In 1971, the experimental film maker Anthony Stern travelled to Afghanistan with his 16 mm film camera. The footage was lost for almost 30 years. Recently rediscovered, it forms the basis of this impressionistic documentary, with an original soundtrack provided by the world fusion musicians Equa.

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The Noon Gun had its world premiere at the 53rd Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) in 2004. It premiered in the UK at the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford (now the National Media Museum), September 2004. In 2005 it also featured as part of 'Films From The South' Festival in Oslo, Norway. In 2006 it was broadcast on Tolo TV, the most popular liberal TV station in Kabul, Afghanistan (and also by the Bhutan Broadcasting Service, the only service to broadcast inside the Bhutanese border).

The Noon Gun was shortlisted, along with 6 other films, for The Satyajit Ray Foundation Short Film Competition in London. Extracts from the entries were screened at the Award Ceremony held in the David Lean Room of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), Piccadilly, London on the afternoon of Sunday 23 April 2006.

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References

The Noon Gun Wikipedia
The Noon Gun IMDb