Collection / Petrolia by Emily Richardson




UK, 2005, 20 minutes
Colour, Sound, Video

Also available as a three screen installation
Benedict Drew: Sound

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A specially commissioned film of the changing coastline of Scotland by the maker of the award winning Aspect, Petrolia portrays a fluid interaction between landscape and population, sea and machine. Filmed in time-lapse, giant oil platforms take begin to resemble organic forms and our sense of scale is gradually eroded.
Also availiable as a three screen installation (as exhibited at The Lighthouse, Glasgow 2005).

Themes: Sea & River

Petrolia in the LUX Shop /

Emily Richardson, 6 FILMS
Emily Richardson, 6 FILMS Emily Richardson LUX, London
£21.00