The closure of a major oil refinery in northern Portugal was not met favorably by the local population. Frustrated by the failure to find the causes for public discontent yet determined to understand whether the closure could have a real effect on climate change, the filmmaker ran a CHATGPT query. The conversation with this natural language processing model ended in an incoherent though unique answer to the big issues of sustainability.
The Closing of a Refinery
Genre
Documentary, Experimental
Country
Portugal
Year
2023
Duration
16'
Production Companies
P.Porto Escola Superior de Media Artes e Design.
Languages
English
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Energy
The main protagonist in a challenging transition that has consistently sparked environmental discussions with its various aspects: fossil fuels, nuclear energy, hydroelectric power, solar power, wind energy, sustainable resources, non-sustainable resources, eco-friendly, harmful.
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Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the Creative Europe Media Program. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.