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Black Gold
20111 min 26 secFilm: Animation
Direction: Aimée van Drimmelen
Production: David VerrallMichael FukushimaMaral Mohammadian
Script: Aimée van Drimmelen
Aimée van Drimmelen's Black Gold employs
hand-drawn animation layered over stop-motion sequences of moving ink on
drumskins to create a striking, mournful portrait of the Alberta tar sands.
Created in a cabin in Saskatchewan, this is Aimée's first animated film.
This animated short was made for Hothouse 7, the NFB’s program for emerging
filmmakers, whose central theme was “Here Be Dragons”.
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Subject categories
- Technology > Oil Industry and Mining Operations
- Industry and Commerce > Oil and Gas Industries
- Civics/Citizenship > Citizen Responsibilities
Credits
- writer
- Aimée van Drimmelen
- director
- Aimée van Drimmelen
- mentoring director
- Luigi Allemano
- composer
- Darren Fung
- musician
- Darren Fung
- Anna Sampson
- editor
- Jelena Popovic
- sound editor
- Luigi Allemano
- infographics
- Susan Gourley
- Randall Finnerty
- foley
- Karla Baumgardner
- recording
- Geoffrey Mitchell
- re-recording
- Serge Boivin
- titles
- Gaspard Gaudreau
- on-line
- Denis Gathelier
- technical co-ordination
- Julie Laperrière
- Steve Hallé
- administration
- Gisèle Guilbault
- Rosalina Di Sario
- Elaine Largie
- executive producer
- David Verrall
- producer
- Michael Fukushima
- associate producer
- Maral Mohammadian