Black Island (1994)
In the North Sea some sixty thousand people live offshore. On the F.G. McClintock drilling rig, eighty men and one woman work around the clock in search of black gold, while a stand-by vessel circles them for their safety. In such a closed space, facing the wild sea, there is little room to say how one feels. “The noise is everywhere, you can’t get away from it,” says Brian Spencer, the toolpusher. After Nord Express and the Queen Elizabeth 2, Rob Rombout films another small society behind closed doors.
Director: Rob Rombout
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Mick Pollard as Self |
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Brian Spencer as Self |
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Glenn A. Musick as Self |
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Terry Johnson as Self |
| Directing | Rob Rombout | Director |
| Writing | Rob Rombout | Writer |
| Writing | Jean-Philippe Laroche | Writer |
| Production | Jean-Philippe Laroche | Producer |
| Camera | Louis-Philippe Capelle | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Philippe Sellier | Sound |
| Editing | Adriana Moreira de Oliveira | Editor |
| Sound | Jean-François Gosselin | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Sound | Jean-Louis Daulne | Original Music Composer |