OilScapes // Film – Artists' Film Screenings 

'Dead Reckoning' (2012), Stephen Hurrel

OilScapes/Film delves into artistic responses to the ecology of oil, exploring the connections and disjunctions between (human) mobility and the (natural) environment as they are shaped by the global oil industry.

From the Cromarty Firth to small-town Pennsylvania, from Oil Rocks (Stalin’s city of oil rigs built in the Caspian Sea) to the building sites of Dubai, these works bear testimony to the cross-circulation of oil imagery that makes connections between disparate locations and across time. Many of these works also reflect on their own materiality as it relates to oil, meditating on questions of sustainability, decay and entropy, and so attending to the ecology of images.

Artists' Films:

The Dubai in Me - Rendering The World (2010) Christian Borries, 78 mins

Petrolia (2005) Emily Richardson, 21 mins

Naft Sefid/White Oil (2005) Mahmoud Rahmani, 16 mins

Oil (2003) Murad Ibragimbekov, 6 mins

Civilization (2009) Murad Ibragimbekov, 5 mins

Dead Reckoning (2012) Stephen Hurrel, 13 mins


http://www.peacockvisualarts.com/events/384/oilscapes-film