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Cinema Politica: Petropolis + Crude Sacrifice

The other-wordly devastation of the Alberta tar sands + First Nation community


7:00pm
Monday March 7 2011

Venue: Room H-110, Concordia University
Address: 1455 de Maisonneuve West
Cost: pay what you can / contribution volontaire

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petropolis

 

Concordia University (Montreal) 
Monday March 7, 2011
Screening begins 19h00 
Venue: Room H-110, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve West

This Quebec premiere will be followed by the fifty-minute film Crude Sacrifice.

Petropolis

The other-wordly devastation of the Alberta tar sands shot from above
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Peter Mettler / Canada / 2009 / 43 min

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.



 

crude sacrifice
 

Concordia University (Montreal) 
Monday March 7, 2011
Screening begins 19h00 
Venue: Room H-110, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve West

This screening will be preceeded by the fourty five minute film Petropolis.

Crude Sacrifice

A film that exposes the devastation of the Alberta tar sands and the struggle of a First Nation community.
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Lawrence Carota / Canada / 2009 / 52 min

Crude Sacrifice takes a look at how one northern community, Fort Chipewyan is affected by the exploitation of Canada's rich Tar Sands development, and how Canada is dealing with their concerns. The health of the land and the people living near the world's largest construction project is discussed by leading scientists and the Aboriginal Peoples. Although this town is located near the earth's second largest fresh water delta, they can no longer drink the water, or eat the fish and other game food which sustained them for thousands of years.



Credits

Production Company: System of Illusion Pictures Ltd.Producer and Director: Lawrence CarotaCinematographer: Lawrence CarotaEditor: Andrej Marko, Christopher CarotaSound: Cole Bayford, Arbour-Dale RobinsonMusic: Matthew Rogers, Shawn Hall

Organizer:Executive Director and Network Coordinator Email: svetla [at] cinemapolitica [dot] org

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