
Aftermath: World Without Oil
Oil disappears overnight, and this speculative film imagines what actually happens next: gas stations run dry, food distribution grinds to a halt within days, and city streets empty out as supply chains collapse. Dramatic re-creations and CGI stand in for real footage, staging blacked-out skylines and abandoned highways to show how much of daily life runs on a resource most people never think about. The film follows how households and cities might respond, from rationing and bartering to early attempts at solar and wind power, and it is blunt about how far those alternatives fall short of replacing oil at scale. Rather than following named survivors, it works through scenario and simulation, tracing effects outward from empty pumps to failing hospitals, stalled freight, and city populations forced to scatter toward food and fuel. The result is less a story than a forecast: a systematic accounting of every place petroleum has quietly embedded itself, and what a modern economy looks like once that support is gone.