Oil Wells: Sturgeon Road & 97th Street (2002)

Christina Battle’s Oil Wells: Sturgeon Road & 97th Street (2003) hand-manipulates 16mm footage of oil fields on the Canadian prairies, simultaneously managing to recall Cécile Fontaine’s delicacy of emulsion-layering technique, pay visual homage to Pat O’Neill’s early 7362 (1967), and evoke with marvellous understatement the grand prize at the heart of the imperialist resource wars. [senses of cinema “Been Underground So Long, It Looks Like Up to Me: New York Underground Film Festival 2004” [Ioannis Mookas (review of programme: ‘patriot games’ – nyuff 2004)]

Released Jan. 1, 2002 3 min None+

Genres: Short

Keywords: mdblist.imdb-short, imdb.experimental-short

Country: Canada
Production Country: Canada
Languages: No Language, English