backdrop_path

    The Fossil Story

    19'

    1953-12-16

    N/A

    Documentary

    Overview:

    In this film, Shell Oil situates its extractive process as an episode within geologic time, naturalizing its products even as it inspires wonder. It contrasts the impatience of the suburban husband wanting to drive his car against the expansive scale of fossil history. According to Shell, with the drilling of oil, “The cycle is complete. Nature’s plan is quite perfect” – the question of where we might fall within such a purported cycle, and what nature may have in store for us, remains an open one.

    DirectingTed Robinson

    Cast

    1

    Narrator (voice)

    Pat McGeehan

    Details:

    • Budget: 0
    • Home page
    • Revenue: 0
    • List of countries:
      1. United States of America
    • List of languages:
      1. List of companies:
        1. Shell Oil Company
      2. Vote Count: 0
      3. Popularity: 0.3986
      4. Status: Released
      5. Original title:The Fossil Story

      Recommndations

      6.2

      Naqoyqatsi

      A visual montage portrait of our...

      6.4

      A Toxic Love Story

      A string of threatening emails...

      7.2

      180° South

      The film follows adventurer Jeff...

      7.4

      McQueen

      Alexander McQueen's rags-to-riches...

      7.1

      Come See Me in the Good...

      In an intimate and joyful story of...

      6.2

      Evil Influencer: The Jodi...

      Unravel the case of Utah therapist...

      6.1

      Anna Nicole Smith: You...

      From the heights of her modeling fame...

      7.5

      28 Up

      Just two years away from turning 30,...

      7.8

      Koyaanisqatsi

      Takes us to locations all around the...

      7.8

      As I Was Moving Ahead...

      A compilation of over 30 years of...

      6.5

      Capital in the...

      Film adaptation of French economist...

      7.8

      Being James Bond

      Daniel Craig candidly reflects on his...

      7

      Directed by John Ford

      A documentary about the life and...

      6.4

      Ex Libris: The New York...

      A documentary about how a dominant...

      7.2

      Powaqqatsi

      An exploration of technologically...

      6

      Memories of a Murderer:...

      Serial killer Dennis Nilsen narrates...

      6.9

      Extremis

      A purely observational non-fiction...

      6.3

      Fuck

      A documentary on the expletive's...

      6.3

      Sherman's March

      Documentarian Ross McElwee originally...

      7

      Anthropocene: The Human...

      Documentary on psychedelic potash...