Synopsis
Stories, histories, and encounters about black gold. To show how people who are near oil live, work, and benefit or suffer from this natural blessing of the earth. Oil has its place in the financial pages of our newspapers, more rarely do we hear from the people who live in the shadow of the great energy machine. Oil fascinates as much as it repels. This is probably because behind it lie many of the themes that agitate our society: the war in Iraq, poverty, wealth, ecology, and pollution. The film tackles these subjects by putting the people who live near oil in the foreground.
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (1)
- Executive Producer : Les Poissons Volants
Full credits (6)
- Executive Producer : Sophie Goupil
- Screenwriter : Carole Cheysson
- Director of Photography : Paolo Woods
- Editors : Carole Cheysson, Thomas Cheysson
- Sound recordists : Jean-Marc Dardalhon, Dominique Lacour
- Voice : Pascal Sanchez
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Research - Experimental
- Themes : Environment
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2004
- Runtime : 16 min
- Production formats : Beta SP
- Color type : Color and Black & White
- Aspect ratio : 4/3
- Audio format : Stereo
- Rating restrictions : None
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An adaptation of the travel stories by Serge Enderlin and Serge Michel.
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