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 introduction to the history of the oil industry through the lens of the film LOUISIANA STORY and to his own family and the impact Louisiana had on his family, where his great-grandfathers once lived, and where his mother, grandmother and grandfather were born and raised. Accompanying this short trailer is a graphic novel.
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.