The Wolf Of Baghdad

Description

This is a DVD-ROM and will play on all computers and Mpg 4 compatible DVD players.

'The Wolf of Baghdad', a graphic memoir about a family's lost homeland, comes to life panel by panel as a motion comic (animated slideshow) with its own musical soundtrack.

In the 1940s a third of Baghdad's population was Jewish. Within a decade, nearly all 150,000 of Iraq's Jews had fled. Of those remaining, most escaped in the 1970s or were killed. Today, fewer than half a dozen remain. Transported by the power of music to her ancestral home in the old Jewish quarter of Baghdad, Carol Isaacs encounters ghost-like inhabitants who are revealed as long-gone family members.

As she explores the city, journeying through their memories and her imagination, what she sees at first is successful integration and cultural and social cohesion. Then the mood turns darker with the fading of this ancient community's fortunes. Throughout, she is accompanied by a wolf, believed by Baghdadi Jews to protect them from harmful demons.

"An enthralling and moving combination of art and music. It is magical." Claudia Roden

"An amazing achievement, a brilliantly and appropriately mute navigation through the dreamscape of recorded and recovered memory, both haunting and devastatingly haunted." Martin Rowson