Past screening

The Oil Machine

Directed by: Emma Davie
Runtime: 1hr 22min Year: 2022

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Directed by: Emma Davie
Runtime: 1hr 22min Year: 2022
Country: United Kingdom
Topics: Environment
Last Screened: Wed 16th Nov 2022

It's time to talk about oil. How we extract it, how we use it, and who profits from it.

Emma Davie’s timely and cinematic new film explores our economic, historical and emotional entanglement with oil by looking at the conflicting imperatives around North Sea oil. Highlighting the complexities of how oil is embedded in our society – from high finance to cheap consumer goods – The Oil Machine brings together a wide range of voices from oil company executives, economists, young activists, pension fund managers and considers how this machine can be tamed, dismantled, or repurposed.

Essential and clear-sighted viewing, this urgent film brings the invisible machine at the core of our economy and society into focus, as the drama of global climate action plays out in the fight over North Sea oil.