Controlled Bleeding - A Nation's Nightmare

Bart Santello - USA - 2008 - Runtime: 17 minutes

Bart Santello and Psychotropic Films present "Controlled Bleeding" - a film about addiction to oil resulting in a nation's dream turned into a nightmare. Through the filmmaker's perceptions of recent history, symbolic media images, imbued with a sense of tragic irony, portray repeating cycles of dysfunctional human and geo-political behavior in the pursuit of a finite resource - Oil. As western nations wage war against Islamic peoples that stand between the access to this ‘black gold’ and the West’s thirst for modern comfort and convenience, the cost of needless human suffering, wars, financial abandon and environmental resource depletion, is seen as incidental to protect the flow of the world’s economic lubricant. Ironically, all this comes at a time when alternate renewable energy technologies could replace oil, transform economies and preserve the environment. Will we open our eyes and awake from the nightmare of oil before it’s too late?

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Credits

Producer: Psychotropic Films
Writer: N/A
Cinematographer: N/A
Editor: Bart Santello
Sound Design: A Produce
Music Score: A Produce
Cast Members: N/A

 

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