[Peak Oil Short Movies]

Aerobar · Coal Joined: Nov 20, 2005 Posts: 12 Location: Paris

Here are some amateur short videos about Peak Oil and current hot/cold oil/gas wars:

Black October: it starts like a remake of 'The Hunt for Red October'... - aired last October on a cable TV channel in the Los Angeles area
Oilway To Hell: since our economies always require more and more energy to grow, what could happen when the oil production will peak ? - would probably be included in a 90-minute professional documentary this year
20OIL: the odyssey that actually began in 2001
soixante-neuf: erotic pseudo-ad made to 'celebrate' the crossing of the $69 threshold at oil prices markets last August
Oil Wars III: oil-related geopolitics à la George Lucas
Duel at Seattle: last giants struggling for survival
EDIT: Europe's Nightmare: based on the recent Ukrainian gas cutoff
EDIT: Impossible Mission: six world leaders strugging for oil

Movie files are usually in Windows Media format (choose this format for the best quality), sometimes in several sizes; check the 'View Movie' section of the above links to select the file.
Thank you for your feedback!

seldom_seen · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Apr 12, 2005 Posts: 1939

Aerobar,

brilliant, great work.

The second movie was stalling on me half way through. Can you export to quicktime? Windows media format is such a sad sap technology compared to quicktime. I wish they would pass a law to ban windows media player, or something. Some sort of legislative action to ban sh*tty software from the internet.

Hegel · Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 4:25 am Post subject: Re: Peak Oil Short Movies

Bravo!
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FossilFool · Tar Sands Joined: Jan 29, 2006 Posts: 81

I was just thinking of Spiderman 2. How Dr. Octopus tried to find that new energy source and how it was bad.

I also think about Batman Begins about its critique on society and how materially extravagant yet morally and socially bankrupt our society has become. And the opinions on the solution.

Aerobar · Coal Joined: Nov 20, 2005 Posts: 12 Location: Paris

New peak oil movie ! As a tribute to the old TV series Mission:Impossible...

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Sketch · Coal Joined: Apr 20, 2006 Posts: 17

Aerobar

Nice work, I especially liked October.

impossible_mission_256kb.mp4 has a couple of audio glitches using Quicktime 7.0.4 and gas-putin_256kb.mp4 is not recognised as a movie file.

What application did you use to create these?

Aerobar · Coal Joined: Nov 20, 2005 Posts: 12 Location: Paris

I actually use Windows Media Player for the final cut. Then I convert the WMV file to MPEG2 and DIVX (which generates a few minor conversion bugs). Archive.org hosting services automatically create the MP4 files - I guess there is some room for improvement in the whole process... It is then highly recommended to watch the 'master' version (WMV).
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Aerobar · Coal Joined: Nov 20, 2005 Posts: 12 Location: Paris

Not exactly about Peak Oil, these clips are about the current electricity blackouts, especially in California...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls8RhoniLD0
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUbSSU4mSTA (hi Arnold Surprised

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simontay78 · Heavy Crude Joined: May 01, 2006 Posts: 182 Location: SG

This is a trailer movie for the latest game "Frontline - Fuel Of War"

Download it to view it without the streaming delays of slow modems Smile

This game is about war based on PEAK OIL
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emailking · Intermediate Crude Joined: Mar 11, 2006 Posts: 747

Yeah it would suck if that stuff happened.

That's why I don't think it will.

Should be a good game though.

Aerobar · Coal Joined: Nov 20, 2005 Posts: 12 Location: Paris

Some new stuff of my own:

The (Fossil) Invaders, a pastiche of the opening credits of the TV series of the same name. It is more dedicated to climate change, but connects it to the Peak Oil issue through the developments of GHG-emitting substitutes
Subprime Street (gOILrillaz), derived from Gorillaz music videos, highlights the strong link between Suburbia and oil, and proposes a roadmap for ersatz oil in terrestrial transportation.

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Aerobar · Coal Joined: Nov 20, 2005 Posts: 12 Location: Paris

Hello everybody

Another humorous video on oil, focusing this time on prices: Calogeroil

A living oil barrel sings 'En apesanteur' (Weightless), a recent hit from the French singer Calogero.

Taking the lift toward high prices, the oil barrel was initially convinced that he could only reach two-figures floor numbers. But inside the liftcage, he met the Goddess of Speculation, who could take him to undiscovered levels, thanks to the commodity bubble and the fall of the dollar currency.

For those who don't understand anything in French, here's a translation of the lyrics:

killJOY · Fission Joined: Feb 21, 2005 Posts: 2254 Location: ^NNE^

Revi, my friend Ian made this one. I'm one of the interviewees.

Ian has caught a lot of crap because of his 9/11 stuff, but the peak oil stuff is good (parts 1, 2, 3).

He lives in Bath now with some friends of mine.

How the End Began.

mos6507 · Fission Joined: Aug 03, 2007 Posts: 2447

Not really impressed with this stuff. It's high on sarcastic politics and low on content. Don't think anyone will care about this besides the converted.

Something like this is more effective:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAPf9V3_li0