"The Closing of a Refinery", documentário de Vasco Monteiro, alumni do Mestrado em Cinema e Fotografia da Escola Superior de Media Artes e Design, estreia no FEST - New Directors, New Films Festival, competindo na categoria Grande Prémio Nacional.
A sessão decorre no dia 30 de junho de 2024, pelas 16h00, no Grande Auditório - Multimeios de Espinho.
In 2020 Galp Energia announced the closing of one of it's refineries in Northern Portugal. Today, it's chimneys still tower the landscape like modern day cathedrals of industry. The promise of a green energy transition remains in the future. The Closing of a Refinery is a non-fiction film that attempts to address the complexity of climate change while commenting on the reliance of technology and the use of easy sound bites as solutions to a global problem.
A conversation with ChatGPT about sustainability and the green energy transition, following the decommission of the largest oil refinery in Northern Portugal.
O FEST - New Directors, New Films Festival decorre de 24 de junho a 1 de julho de 2024, em Espinho.