Crude Oil
2008Crude Oil (simplified Chinese: 采油日记 ; traditional Chinese: 採油日記 ; pinyin: Cǎi yóu rì jì ) is a 2008 Chinese documentary film directed by Wang Bing. Filmed in the Inner Mongolian portion of the Gobi Desert, it follows a group of oil field workers as they go about their daily routine.[1]
Like Wang's debut feature — the nine-hour Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks — Crude Oil is notable for its extreme length, running 840 minutes (14 hours). The original plan called for a 70-hour film, but Wang felt compelled to exert additional editorial control and reduced the work to its present length.[2] The director himself came down with severe altitude sickness and left the location three days into the one-week shoot; his crew completed the remainder without him.[3]
Crude Oil premiered (in a video installation setting) at the 2008 International Film Festival Rotterdam, where it received a NETPAC "Special Mention" for "its dispassionate expose of the hardship of human labour which is the basis of economic progress."[4] The project was commissioned by the IFFR, with additional support from the Hubert Bals Fund.[2] It had its Asian premiere at the 2008 Hong Kong International Film Festival.[5] Its North American premiere was at The Los Angeles Film Festival in June 2009, with screenings held in Gallery 6 at the Hammer Museum.[6]
Kinostart: | 2008 | ||||||
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Genre: | Dokumentarfilm | ||||||
Herstellungsland: | Volksrepublik China | ||||||
Originalsprache: | Mandarin | ||||||
IMDB: | 51 |
Regie: | Wang Bing |
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2008 | Rotterdam International Film Festival Netpac Award - Special Mention | Gewinner |