OIL ROCKS - CITY ABOVE THE SEA / Documentary film, Teaser HD

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SYNOPSIS
THE OIL ROCKS - Behind this enigmatic name lies the first and largest offshore oil town ever built. A vast, sprawling web of oil platforms in the middle of the Caspian Sea, commissioned by Stalin in 1949.
Imagine: 2,000 oil rigs, 300 kilometres of bridges, rusty old Soviet trucks rolling back and forth, nine-storey building blocks, thousands of oil workers, a cultural palace, a lemonade factory, a green park…
Sixty years on, the Oil Rocks still stand. But two-thirds of the infrastructure has been regained by the sea. A kind of Oil Atlantis, only real.
Combining black-and-white archives from the Soviet era and contemporary footage, the film tells the story of this timeless place and of some of its amazing inhabitants.
It is the first time a Western film crew is allowed to make a documentary on the site since its creation.
CREDITS
A film by Marc Wolfensberger
Camera: Jon Björgvinsson
Sound: Blaise Gabioud
Editing: Patrick Léger, Peter Entell, Ana Acosta
Original music: Igor Cubrilovic
Sound editing: Carlos Ibañez
Sound mix: Philippe Mercier, Studio Prism
Colorimetry: Jean-Noël Henrioux, One Pixel Studio
Graphic design: Elise Gaud de Buck, lelgo.com
Field assistant: Kamil Piriyev
Lead producer: Isabelle Gattiker, Intermezzo Films
Co-production: RTS Radio Télévision Suisse, Intermezzo Films, THIN LINE Productions
With the participation of:
YLE (Finland), MDR (Germany), Cinéforom
And the support of:
Ville de Genève - Département des Affaires Culturelles, Fondation Vaudoise pour le Cinéma, Fonds Regio Films, Fonds Mécénat SIG, Succès Passage Antenne, Pour-cent culturel Migros, Fonds de production télévisuelle, Films pour un seul monde, Fondation Corymbo
THE FILM IS AVAILABLE IN:
Russian/Azeri (V.O.), with English subtitles
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French (sync.)
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German (sync.)
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INTERNATIONAL SALES
intermezzofilms.ch
thin-line.net
FESTIVALS
DADo Film Society, Melbourne (June 2014)
Architecture & Design Film Festival, Australia (May 2014)
ArchiFacts Film Festival Antwerpen (Nov. 2012)
Pyongyang International Film Festival (Sept. 2012)
Peacock Visual Arts Aberdeen (Sept. 2012)
Budapest Architecture Film Days (March 2012)
Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam (Oct. 2011)
Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital, Washington (March 2011)
New waves, new ways, Czech Republic (Nov. 2010)
Doclisboa, Portugual (Oct. 2010)
Reykjavik International Film Festival (Sept. 2010)
Documentarist 2010, Istanbul (June 2010)
Rodos Ecofilms, Greece (June 2010)
International Madrid Documentary Film Festival (May 2010)
Planet Doc Review, Warsaw (May 2010)
Trento Film Festival, Italy (April 2010)
Anasy Documentary Awards, United Arab Emirates (April 2010)
Al-Jazeera International Documentary Film Festival, Doha (April 2010)
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Greece (March 2010)
Cinequest Film Festival, San José, CA/U.S.A. (Feb. 2010)
Tokyo International Film Festival (Oct. 2009) - World Premiere
Visions du Réel Nyon, Switzerland (April 2009)
Winner of the Polly Krakora award for artistry in film, Washington Environment Film

[@mau6707]

Quello che poteva essere un'inferno è stato mutato in uno strano paradiso dagli incredibili cittadini di questa città fuori dal mondo! RESPECT! 🙏

[@civ34]

What an amazing place. Thank you for the video

[@sela.kantu777gospel]

Que cidade incrível! Lugar interessante.

[@deliciousgroove]

I'd like to see this. I came here because I read an article in Vice about this place.

[@ajsalazar9952]

It is impossible to find the full documentary for purchase or to stream online 😢

[@caleschmidt]

So cool, what an amazing place. What's that song around 2 mins?

[@reshaddadashoff7055]

this is azerbaijan

[@Aaron-8989]

Very cool place!

[@raisingtheconch6730]

The last ditch resource of oil after the Middle East conflicts and Polar oil ice warming explorations.

[@reshaddadashoff7055]

azerbaijan

[@user-nr6fq4lp1o]

wow!!!!

[@purewaves1]

Where can we get the DVD/Blu-ray?

[@thinline]

apologies for the (very) late reply... We had missed your comment. The film is available in VoD under: vimeo.com/ondemand/oilrocks Kind regards, Marc Wolfensberger (film director)

[@TheTrueNehme]

omg Stormalong a a real place..

[@reshaddadashoff7055]

this is azerbaijan

[@user-nn2ev1nl3x]

They work in shitty conditions