Quite apart from Noah’s Ark in the Bible Ark stories are appearing increasingly in modern themes.
The Age of Stupid was enacted in an ‘Ark’ a building standing on a pillar alone in a sea of water archiving seeds and animals and artifacts and knowledge with a lone curator telling the story of the end of humanity through the medium of a computer referring to news items from events in our time.
2012 a movie about an imaginary future where catastrophe strikes through the medium of volcanic eruption magnetic movement in the earth’s crust and sunspot activity is also about the rich and powerful elites of the earth building 8 ‘Ark’s’ in China – huge metal boats that can ride out the tidal waves that engulf the whole planet right up to the tops of the Himalayan Mountains.
