ASAFilm movies
Film title: Rig Life
Director: Edward Owles
Producer: Phil Cox, Native Voice Films
Cameraperson: Edward Owles
Location: The Scott Platform, North Sea, UK
Running time: 4 x 3 minutes
Date of completion: June 2008
Screening history: Screened on Channel 4, UK in July 2008
Description:
A series of four short films made on an oil rig in the North Sea, an observational look at a rarely studied community.
Oil platforms are scattered through the North Sea, metal giants toiling 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to power the UK. Rig Life provides four distinct insights of this rarely-examined community, with reflections from those who work offshore about their lives and the dwindling reserves of black gold they dredge up. The films address issues of labour, gender and generation as well as providing a poetically ethnographic visual documentation of their locale.
Jacqui runs the communications for the entire platform and is responsible for the daily coming and goings of the chopper. She reflects on life as one of the few women working in the male-dominated world of North Sea oil.