WHAT DOES THE A.R.K. OF THE COVENANT LOOK LIKE?

If you’re a regular reader here you know we’re making a movie about finding the Ark of the Covenant. No, it won’t be anything like Indiana Jones. It’s more of a sci-fi noir film, if that makes any sense.  See here to get a better idea of the feel of this movie.

So of course the question comes up: do we show the ARK?  What does it even look like?

We’d like to share our inspiration for re-creating the ARK on set…without revealing what it will actually look like in the movie.  This is a a pre-First Temple private altar – called “heter bamot:”

And here’s our executive producer, Harry Moskoff, of Moskoff Media, standing in front of it (just to give you an idea of size):

 

This is now on exhibit at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.  Altars like this were used in pre-Temple
times when private altars were still permitted to Jews.

We know what the actual ARK looked like, based on the description in the Torah:

 

 

 

But as filmmakers we like to use our creative license, and have something in mind that will work beautifully with the light.  To be revealed…