Oil in the Family
"Oil in the Family" is a feature-length documentary film created by Jon Goldman, an interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker. This project explores Goldman's personal connection to the oil industry and its impact on Louisiana, where his great-grandfathers once lived, and where his mother, grandmother and grandfather were born and raised.
You can’t drive a car today without feeling responsible for what happened on the Gulf Coast in the largest oil spill in U.S. history.
Faulty concrete, lack of supervision, and profit motive aside, we still have gas in our tanks, while our electrical vehicles charge via hydroelectric, and coal, and the solar farm reduces our energy costs for ten years.
Still, EVERYTHING we touch, purchase, see, eat, DO, imagine is made possible because of decisions made on a model for unsustainable industrialization.
Facing the sacrifices of the challenge to do better is daunting at the very least. Undeniably the temperature, the water levels, the quantity of stuff increases.
Welcome to the conundrum of our time.