Carbon Captivity

Documentary Feature | German with English Subtitles | Germany | Oliver Ressler

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is promoted as a solution to global warming by storing CO₂ in sub-seabed formations, but it remains immature, with cracks found in North Sea storage rocks. Filmed at Norway’s Technology Centre Mongstad (TCM), the film shows how CCS could delay decarbonisation and increase fossil fuel dependence. The title refers to humanity’s “captivity” within capitalism’s extractivism.

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About the Filmmaker

Oliver Ressler is an artist and filmmaker who produces installations, projects in public space, and films on economics, democracy, racism, climate breakdown, forms of resistance and social alternatives. Ressler had comprehensive solo exhibitions at Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb; Neuer Berliner Kunstverein; MNAC – National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest; SALT Galata, Istanbul; Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville; Museo Espacio, Aguascalientes, Mexico and Belvedere 21, Vienna. He has participated in more than 400 group exhibitions, including Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid; Centre Pompidou, Paris and the biennials in Taipei, Lyon, Gyumri, Venice, Athens, Quebec, Jeju, Kyiv, Gothenburg, Istanbul and at Documenta 14, Kassel, 2017.