Petropolis Trailer

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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[235RB]

@fortmcmurraycash u mad bro?

[federicasarti]

This trailer reminds me the road for the Overlook Hotel in Shining, I like it!

[fortmcmurraycash]

You fucking people are so blind to what really happens up here. All the Indians say we are ruining their land but guess where they ALL work?? Ask those greenpeace fuck heads what it was like In jail after they pulled their stunts here. Stupid fuckin people risked lives that day. Greenpeace will never ever change anything, they are laughed at and not taken seriously at all anywhere in the world.

[erockjmet]

@martinez85 The only ignorant people are the ones that have not been there to see for them selves. Bloody oil or "dirty oil".

[martinez85]

@erockjmet Spoken like a true ignoramus.

[mstegink]

@erockjmet You'd be amazed who cares about this. Not living up to your assumptions.

[AnaFemeel]

i think this video was about Petropolis my city in Brazil

[grandlifer]

why is the film named after a city in brazil?

[erockjmet]

what a stupid film. It show tailings ponds, that are a part of any mining operation. Any tailings pond has residual amounts of the product left in it. In this case it is oil. Imagine three or four uranium mines in one are. Or thorium, lead, wolfram and on and on and on. This is not the worst thing in the world. Instead of critisizing what is happening, shave your dreadlocks, wash your armpits and get an education on how to help the industry. Its not going anywhere soon, so deal with it.

[stevepoots]

great eye opening film.. Mettler is an amazing filmmaker.. one of the best