Total Disaster

Director: Keil Orion Troisi, Molly Gore

United States, France, 2022

11′

Synopsis

Trickster environmental activists pretending to be oil behemoth Total stage a satirical press conference to introduce “RéHabitat,” a plan to rescue animals from the East African Oil Pipeline by relocating them to “more sustainable” habitats in France. Using humor and mischief, they expose a deadly ecological and humanitarian disaster in a zany effort to help #StopEACOP.

Directors' bio

Keil Orion Troisi is an artist and activist. For a decade he has been a core member of culture-jamming group The Yes Men. He wrote and directed the corporate-horror feature “Human Resources” (2015), shorts “Mono Generation” (2017) and “Cicada” (2022), and produced and co-wrote “Peace Pipeline” (2021), a MAP Fund awarded performance film opposing Line 3, which won Best Documentary Short at Dallas VideoFest, North Dakota Human Rights, Wolf Tree, Jim Thorpe, and Skoden fests. He won a NYFA Fellowship in Screenwriting-Playwriting (2019), and his screenplay “Aphids” was in the top 10% of both the Nicholl Fellowship and Sundance Screenwriting Lab submissions (2020). Molly Gore is a multimedia artist, journalist, and culture jammer who works at the intersection of mischief and social change. She is the co-founder of culture jamming activist collective The Fixers, co-founder of underground satirical food magazine Hair of the Dog, and former director of the improvisational surrealist street theater team The Salted Codpiece.

Credits

Writer: Keil Orion Troisi, Molly Gore

Producer: The Yes Men, Keil Orion Troisi, Molly Gore

Key Cast: Julien Bertrand, Chris Miega, Noa Soussan, Ilya Vett, Toria Sterling, Keil Orion Troisi, Molly Gore