A Crude Awakening. The Oil Crash

It's the end of an exhausting, exciting week of movies in Texas … I have watched an awful lot of films in the last few days at the South by Southwest Film Festival …Boy, are we in trouble. As I said above, the best movie I saw at SXSW this year was "Oil Crash", a terrific work of investigative journalism-as-film that will scare the living crap out of you. Sure, you've read a little about the "Peak Oil" hypothesis, you disapprove in some theoretical way of the planet's massive (and rapidly worsening) fossil-fuel addiction, you're in favor of alternative energy sources and all that. You may even have the sense that things will get fairly bumpy as we try to develop cheaper solar power or new hydrogen technologies or whatever. Am I right so far? Well, Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack's film paints a vastly grimmer picture than that, and here's the thing. Their sources are not eco-freaks from Vermont or Berkeley in Peruvian clothing, but scientists, financial insiders and retired oil executives, many of them bedrock conservatives. Their message: The era of oil is nearly at an end, and the social and economic consequences are barely imaginable. (Andrew O'Hehir on Salo.com 16. März 2006)

Language: English
Autor: Basil Gelpke und Ray McCormack
Relase date: Oktober 2007
long: 90 Minuten DVD
Merchandising: Citydisc

Peak Oil imposed by Nature

Shortly, the world will no longer be able to produce enough oil to satisfy demand. The consequences will be dramatic for everyone. This documentary argues that we will reach the Peak of global oil production between 2007 and 2010. In the documentary, Dr Colin Campbell takes us to Stavanger in Norway, where he has worked the last 10 years of his professional career. He explains the different aspects of discovery and production, the increase and decline, and the fact that this will happen very soon on a world scale. Dr Campbell serves as the ‘guide’ throughout the documentary, although he is just one of the many informed and informative analysts featured. The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation boycotted this film whereupon filmmaker Amund Prestegård decided to distribute the film around the world through the Internet.

Language: English
Autor: Amund Prestegård
Relase date: 2006
long: 30 Minuten DVD
Merchandising: http://www.troposdoc.com

Der Ölfluch (Film 1)

Die Fernsehbeiträge «Der Ölfluch», NZZ Format vom 16. Januar 2005, sowie «Das Ende des Ölzeitalters», NZZ Format vom 23. Januar 2005 sind als DVD erhältlich. Inhalt Film 1: Der Ölfluch: Das Vollbad in Öl: Eine zweifelhafte Therapie. – Das Kaspische Meer: 150 Jahre Kampf ums schwarze Gold. – Die ältesten Ölfelder der Welt: Eine ökologische Katastrophe. – Die Exkremente des Teufels: Der Petrostaat Venezuela. – Die letzten Reserven: Schwerstöl aus der Wildnis. In «NZZ Swiss Made»: Das Zwei-Liter-Auto. Inhalt Film 2: Das Ende des Ölzeitalters In der texanischen Ölprovinz: Das Leben nach dem Öl. – Hubbert’s Peak: Warum der Ölpreis weiter steigen wird. – Ohne Öl kein Transport: Das Ende der Globalisierung. – Oil for Food: Nahrung für 6,4 Milliarden Menschen. – Die alten Männer der OPEC: Nach uns die Sintflut. In «NZZ Swiss made»: Das Kraftwerk im Koffer.

Language: Deutsch
Autor: Basil Gelpke
Relase date: 2005
long: 31 Minuten DVD
Merchandising: www.nzz-format-shop.ch

Der Ölfluch (Film 2)

Die Fernsehbeiträge «Der Ölfluch», NZZ Format vom 16. Januar 2005, sowie «Das Ende des Ölzeitalters», NZZ Format vom 23. Januar 2005 sind als DVD erhältlich. Inhalt Film 1: Der Ölfluch: Das Vollbad in Öl: Eine zweifelhafte Therapie. – Das Kaspische Meer: 150 Jahre Kampf ums schwarze Gold. – Die ältesten Ölfelder der Welt: Eine ökologische Katastrophe. – Die Exkremente des Teufels: Der Petrostaat Venezuela. – Die letzten Reserven: Schwerstöl aus der Wildnis. In «NZZ Swiss Made»: Das Zwei-Liter-Auto. Inhalt Film 2: Das Ende des Ölzeitalters In der texanischen Ölprovinz: Das Leben nach dem Öl. – Hubbert’s Peak: Warum der Ölpreis weiter steigen wird. – Ohne Öl kein Transport: Das Ende der Globalisierung. – Oil for Food: Nahrung für 6,4 Milliarden Menschen. – Die alten Männer der OPEC: Nach uns die Sintflut. In «NZZ Swiss made»: Das Kraftwerk im Koffer.

Language: Deutsch
Autor: Basil Gelpke
Relase date: 2005
long: 31 Minuten DVD
Merchandising: www.nzz-format-shop.ch

The End of Suburbia

Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream Suburbia, and all it promises, has become the American Dream. But as we enter the 21st century, serious questions are beginning to emerge about the sustainability of this way of life. With brutal honesty and a touch of irony, The End of Suburbia explores the American Way of Life and its prospects as the planet approaches a critical era, as global demand for fossil fuels begins to outstrip supply. World Oil Peak and the inevitable decline of fossil fuels are upon us now, some scientists and policy makers argue in this documentary.

Language: Englisch
Autor: Gregory Greene
Relase date: 2004
long: 80 Minuten DVD
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