Black Sea Files

Black Sea Files is a territorial research on the Caspian oil geography: the world’s oldest oil extraction zone. A giant new subterranean pipeline traversing the Caucasus will soon pump Caspian Crude to the West. The line connecting the resource fringe with the terminal of the global high-tech oil circulation system, runs through the video like a central thread. However, the trajectory followed by the narrative is by no means a linear one. Circumventing the main players in the region, the video sheds light on a multitude of secondary sceneries. Oil workers, farmers, refugees and prostitutes who live along the pipeline come into profile and contribute to a wider human geography that displaces the singular and powerful signifying practices of oil corporations and oil politicians.

43 min None+

Genres: Documentary, Short

Keywords: mdblist.imdb-video, imdb.video-essay, imdb.big-oil, imdb.caucasus, imdb.oil-pipeline, imdb.oil-extraction, imdb.oil-industry-collusion + 24 more, imdb.baku, imdb.geopolitics, imdb.displaced-person, imdb.video-installation, imdb.oil-worker, imdb.petroleum, imdb.british-petroleum, imdb.crude-oil, imdb.caspian-sea, imdb.georgia-europe, imdb.istanbul-turkey, imdb.prostitute, imdb.pimp, imdb.farmer, imdb.refugee, imdb.pipeline, imdb.oil-industry, imdb.oil, imdb.fuel-pipeline, imdb.tbilisi, imdb.infrastructure, imdb.terminal, imdb.oil-tanker, imdb.kurd