The all-Dutch team of photographer Rein Janssen, special effects artist Erik Voors, and copywriter Pieter van den Heuvel pool their talents for this Greenpeace spot – a stark and poetic ode to our dwindling love for fossil fuels.

Finally
conscience colors the end of a dark era
We’ve come to our senses
For life’s more important than any machine
and water has more value than gasoline
Hmm, we’ve sure had our fun though:
liquid gold
countless machines with roaring engines
excuses for war
and mountains of plastic
Yes, the dark side has such seductive sides
but this is its end:
the end… of oil.
 

Client: Greenpeace

Director/AD/models: Rein Janssen, Erik Voors
Copy: Pieter van den Heuvel
Production: Chuck Studios
Camera: Tom Bakker, Suraj ‘Paco’ Kumar
Edit: Pim van der Pas @ MRTN Edit Boutique
Grade: Tristen Mackenzie @ Chuck Studios
Online/compositing: The Compound
Gaffer: Joost Meeuwig @ Prima de Lux
SFX assistant: Conor Vella
PA: Iris van der Velden

Music: Peter Sandberg @ Epidemic Sound
Sound design: Juan Pablo Thummler @ Wavestudios
Voice over: Martin Leitner @ Wavestudios

Special thanks: Olaf van Gerwen, Thijs Biersteker, Loïs van Ruijven, Cor Meijerink