Abandoned Star Wars Film Sets in the Tunisian Desert
Amazing find for the Star Wars fan after the shooting of the Star Wars back in the 70’s the whole set was left behind in the Tunisian Desert to rot, But back in September 2010, artist and photographer Rä di Martino ventured into the Tunisian desert to find the abandoned movie sets from Star Wars. The desert location was used in 1976 to film Lars Homestead on Luke Skywalker’s home planet of Tatooine.
Actually finding the sets wasn’t as easy as you might think being in Tunisia. At first, Martino had only Google Maps as her guide, and when you’re in the desert, that just won’t do. It was only after a chance encounters with a driver who knew the desert well and a detour to ask directions at a police station that she finally stumbled upon her subject.
In Martino’s series entitled NO MORE STARS, she explains:
“This is a series of photographs taken in the abandoned movie sets of the film saga Star Wars, filmed through the years in different locations in the south of Tunisia.
Unexpectedly those sets have been left on location, probably because in the middle of nowhere and because no-one from the local authorities complained and therefore after years some of it have now become ruins, almost as some sort strange archaeological sites.
The particular hot and dry climate has helped maintain intact many parts of the sets, or buried under the sand just sections of it. The sets visited are in four different locations.”