The Burning Sea

19 June 2022

Director: John Andreas Andersen

Who

Her: Oceanologist from Norway, working on oil stations.

Him: Sofia, Stian, Odin, a modern Norwegian family.

What

Her: A natural disaster of unknown nature that happens in Northern Sea.

Him: A catastrophic oil leak and underwater robotics. 

When

Her: Nowadays.

Him: Present day or near future.

Where

Her: Norway, North Sea.

Him: Norway and the North Sea.

Why

Her: Did this happen? When there’s a lot of money involved, and decisions have to be made on the spot, it is quite often that mistakes are made to cover up for the order to cover up, NDAs are signed.

Him: Political and environmental commentary on a climate disaster because of man’s reliance on fossil fuels. The coda was Norway thought they were an oil country, but the’yre really a water country, and you can have one or the other, trying to have both will have oil destroy the ocean.