
Film
Petrolia
2005 · 21m · Documentary
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- 7.6
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Overview
Petrolia takes its name from a redundant oil drilling platform sat in the Cromarty Firth, Scotland. The film looks at the architecture of the oil industry along the Scottish coastline where oil and gas supplies are predicted to run dry in the next forty years. Shooting on 16mm film, using time lapse and long exposure techniques, the film presents a record of industrial phenomena, – the toxic beauty of the refinery at Grangemouth, huge drilling platforms gliding across the water as they come in for maintenance and repair at Nigg and the last dance of the shipbuilding cranes in Glasgow harbour.
Crew
- Emily RichardsonDirector · Director of Photography
Details
- Release date
- January 1, 2005
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 21m
- Genres
- Documentary
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