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The video documents the work by Irish artist John Gerrard commissioned by Channel’s 4, Man-Made Planet, digital simulation of of the place where it used to be one of the most important oil find in the United States, located in Texas and discovered for the first time in 1901. The landscape is simulated in real time in its exact evolving during the course of the day and of the seasons.