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Year: 2009
UK: Dogwoof Pictures
Director: Peter Mettler
Country: Canada
UK: 43 mins
UK Certificate: U
UK Release Date: 14 May 2010 (Limited Release - London, ICA)
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Synopsis
Shot primarily from a helicopter, filmmaker Peter Mettler’s
PETROPOLIS: AERIAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE ALBERTA TAR SANDS offers an
unparalleled view of the world’s largest industrial, capital and
energy project.
Canada’s tar sands are an oil reserve the size of England.
Extracting the crude oil called bitumen from underneath unspoiled
wilderness requires a massive industrialized effort with
far-reaching impacts on the land, air, water, and climate.
It’s an extraordinary spectacle, whose scope can only be
understood from far above. In a hypnotic flight of image and sound,
one machine’s perspective upon the choreography of others,
suggests a dehumanized world where petroleum’s power is supreme.
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