Deep Water Horizon
Experimental • Germany 2010 • 9 min
In 2009, the Deep Water Horizon oil rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico became a global event. Cloud formations are reminiscent of drifting oil slicks and leaking oil in deep water.
Synopsis
“Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.”
Miguel de Cervantes, 1581
A view of the sky over Munich, Germany, from his bedroom’s balcony, inspired the film DEEP WATER HORIZON (2010). The cloud formations recall drifting oil films, seeping oil leaks in deep waters. The catastrophe caused by the eponymous oil rig’s collapse in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 was built up into a global disaster by the media. The news mercilessly exposes the contrast between unmanageable ecologic damage and weeks of helplessness caused by the failure of human technology to contain the disaster.
Film Stills
Credits
a film by Michal Kosakowski
Music by Paolo Marzocchi
”I fuochi di Sant’Elmo”
performed by Atem Sax Quartet
Soprano Sax: David Brutti
Alto Sax: Matteo Villa
Tenor Sax: Davide Bartelucci
Baritone Sax: Massimo Valentini
Written, directed and produced by Michal Kosakowski
Time-lapse images shot and edited by Michal Kosakowski
Title design by Rafal Kosakowski
Research by Goran Mimica
Prop Maker: Beppi Schindler
Special thanks to
Uli Aigner, Therese Davies, Josef Paul, Lucy Paul, Marie Paul
Production company: Michal Kosakowski Productions
