Controlled Bleeding - A Nation's Nightmare

Controlled Bleeding -- A Nation's Nightmare
A film by Bart Santello

Psychotropic Films presents Controlled Bleeding, a film about addiction and dreams turned to nightmares. Underground filmmaker Bart Santello applies his signature psycho-active filmmaking style to perceptions of recent history. In this film, symbolic media images, imbued with a sense of tragic irony, portray repeating cycles of dysfunctional human behavior in the pursuit of a finite resource - Oil.

Historical Background That Inspired This Film: Oil - the biggest industry on earth - drives the world's economic model, provides vast oil wealth and power for business and political entities. However, this fading resource, now mostly concentrated in poor, remote and politically unstable countries halfway around the world, leaves highly mechanized nations vulnerable to events in these remote countries. As third-world nations industrialize and populations explode, competition over the remaining oil intensifies.

Around the world, corrupt power brokers influence and infiltrate governments and manipulate jingoistic ideologies of powerful nations into projecting military power. To ensure the control of oil requires a physical presence which disrupts cultures of the people living in the regions where oil is found. After decades of economic exploitation and cultural degradation, David now fights-back against Goliath, in a modern day 'war-of-the-worlds.'

In the United States at the dawn of the 21st century, political proxies of oil conglomerates have hijacked incredible technological, economic and military resources of a nation to wage war against Islamic peoples that stand between the access to 'black gold' and the West's thirst for modern comfort and convenience. The cost of needless human suffering, financial abandon and environmental resource depletion, is seen as incidental to protect the flow of the world's economic lubricant.

Rather than seek clean, sustainable alternatives to oil that would diffuse Jihad related terror; the defense of oil in America has moved the country toward a Fascist state. Capitalizing on fear following the events of September 11th, 2001, a dictatorial Executive Branch, conducts wars that fill the pockets of the military Industrial complex. At the same time proclaim to protect the public from the consequences of its own compulsive and consumptive behaviors: Wasteful practices which the government itself enables and perpetuates. One can now witness in real-time, a nation bring terrible misfortune down upon itself through addiction, fear, propaganda, and extreme nationalism; while expending great resources and policies that ironically help create enemies faster than they can be killed.

This perilous gamble with economic catastrophe and the sacrifice of moral behavior is conducted in full view of the world. And one can now witness a once highly respected nation, regress into mis-adventures such as secret prisons, torture and hunting-down its enemies as they dash from cave-to-cave in remote regions of the world.

Ironically, all this comes at a time when alternate renewable energy technologies could replace oil, transform economies, preserve the environment and empower people to take responsibility for their energy use. Will we open our eyes and awake from the nightmare of oil before it's too late?

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Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• gulf
• oil
• spill
• environment
• iraq
• war
• cam
• iran
• bin
• laden
• jihad
• al
• qaeda
• george
• bush
• cheney
• rumsfeld
• terrorism
• 9/11
• wolfowitz
• saddam
• hussein
• neocon

[bongnbud]

All these requests for texts, reminds me of kindergarten. remember how the teacher would read the words as the class looked at the pictures? thats their childish mentality....This visual compilation is awesome!! it just takes a certain kind of intelligence to comprehend the artist, or filmakers, concept...Again great job!

[Bsantello]

I'm glad to hear you connected with this film at an artistic level. It shows you were open to my style and thus were able to have an original experience viewing this motion picture.. Bart S. Director "Controlled Bleeding"

[geoffreyprime]

Formulaic and very predictable. scarey pictures and scarey music is nothing new, conceptually - especially with stock video footage

[Bsantello]

I chose the film's central idea to be "oil" - the biggest industry on earth. So I went

back through my media library on this topic, choosing only those visual elements (from the media) that I thought were artistic. What I did for Controlled Bleeding was to reassemble these seemingly random visual elements from the archived media, into a film that represents how I perceive the impact of oil on the world, all driven by the human psyche. Bart S.,Filmmaker

[Mizz616]

I agree wit R0c because im sitting here thinin wow where the text i can atleast read.now if i was totally blown on weed I would be like dude this video is creepy and trippy..but sober im thinkin..add sum text cuz it looks a bit like illuminati propaganda

[Bsantello]

In filmmaking, I like to show how I perceive things. The world is presented to us through media. We observe it, but our observations go through a cultural filter and thus our observations are tainted. I suggest looking at the film like you're watching someone's dream. But instead of trying to figure it out; instead, use your experience of viewing the film, as an opportunity to observe emotions generated by the experience. Bart S.,Filmmaker

[R0c]

As someone who likes to read about politics while they're high, I can really appreciate this

[DameEdithDivine]

Terrifying. The music completes the picture, awesome.

[StigmataBOB1]

Accident? Is the Oil disaster being made to look like an accident? Earth has over 100,000 nukes. Could we have an accident?

Can we trust that all Nations who have Nukes, would never have an accident? Or use one and say they were defending themselves? What about a submarine commander, or a suite case nuke, or an airplane crash? Would such an accident cause the world to insist on having a One World Oversight over Nukes? A One World Government?

[LilGreenFiero]

Personally, the video and topic are very overwhelming in scope and length to be fully appreciated by myself at an artistic level. I think that this is because my mind is clouded with the research I've compiled on this topic. It is, however, a very well-done video with a good musical score attached, not to mention the very poignant message conveyed by the author.

[freetopoets]

perfect formatting looking for more.

[freetopoets]

brilliant work breaking down conscious borders to hard situations, translating into and experiential learning situation in which the whole person is involved. You want hollywood, go to hollywood.  You want to stretch your consciousness without necessarily using drugs, watch the work of Barton Santello.

[drplbiftin]

mmmh, I love Controlled Bleeding.

[ernialvaraoz]

es amviental