PETRO MELANCHOLIA

Films for Future at Climate Week Zurich​​ 

Event Language: English

PETRO MELANCHOLIA – Film and Panel Discussion

Oil means wealth, power and dependence. In “Petro Melancholia,” Mathias Frick explores the emotional and cultural dimensions of our relationship with fossil fuels. The film takes viewers from abandoned oil rigs to glimmering gas stations and asks: What remains when oil runs out?

With essayistic depth, it evokes a melancholic portrait of an era nearing its end. “Petro Melancholia” is not a conventional environmental film but an atmospheric reflection on progress, loss, and the longing for another way of life, beyond the fossil (night)mare.

2022, Germany, 52 min, German (with english subtitels) + 30 min panel discussion