Basil Gelpke & Ray McCormack
Supported by a powerful mix of archival footage, NASA shots of burning oil fields, and, often unintentionally hilarious, historical film excerpts, “A Crude Awakening” guides us on an exotic, visual journey that begins in Houston and continues to Caracas and Venezuela’s Lake of Maracaibo and Orinoco Delta, Central Asia's secretive republic of Azerbaijan with its ancient capital Baku and the Caspian Sea, via London & Zürich. The film visits cities around the world to learn of our future from such leading authorities as oil investment banker Matthew Simmons; former OPEC chairman Fadhil Chalabhi; Caltech's head of physics David Goodstein; Stanford University political scientist Terry Lynn Karl; peak oil expert Matthew Savinar and many more.
(Switzerland, 2006, 84 min, 35mm)
Awards: See web site for detailed awards list.
Scheduled Show Times
(Saturday, 9:40 p.m., NUG)