Teddy Roosevelt and Fracking

Runtime: 30 min
Country: United States
Director: Pamela Falkenberg, Jack Cochran
Year: 2017

Synopsis

An experimental documentary essay, Teddy Roosevelt and Fracking explores the beauty and fragility of the North Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana landscapes, contrasting the vastness and stark loneliness of the relatively untouched wild areas with the terrible beauty of the oil derricks, natural gas burn offs, coal mines, machinery, trucks and energy towns – visual evidence of the recent boom and bust economy that echoes the cattle boom and bust of the 1880's. Teddy's writings about the landscape and conservation combined with our images, lets the landscape speak for itself, making its own plea for protecting wild places.

Festival screening

Season: 2019
Section: Documentary
Premiere: Czech

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