To Be Rich confronts the legacy of the American West, in particular the effect of extractive industries on the land and the people who live there. Using the story of the mineral rights Erika Bolstad’s mother inherited in North Dakota at the height of the Bakken oil boom, the film asks the question: What does it mean to be rich? It asks people to reconsider linear maps made at the time of European settlement in favor of a form of mapping that envisions how fossil fuels in the earth beneath us reappear as CO2 emissions in the sky above.
- Runtime10 minutes
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorErika Bolstad
To Be Rich confronts the legacy of the American West, in particular the effect of extractive industries on the land and the people who live there. Using the story of the mineral rights Erika Bolstad’s mother inherited in North Dakota at the height of the Bakken oil boom, the film asks the question: What does it mean to be rich? It asks people to reconsider linear maps made at the time of European settlement in favor of a form of mapping that envisions how fossil fuels in the earth beneath us reappear as CO2 emissions in the sky above.
- Runtime10 minutes
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorErika Bolstad