One Image Two Acts
by Sanaz Sohrabi
30 Sept. from 2pm to 6pm
1st oct. from 10am to 6pm
2 oct. from 10am to 6pm
3 oct. from 10am to 6pm
4 oct. from 10am to 6pm
5 oct. from 10am to 6pm
6 oct. from 10am to 6pm
7 oct. from 10am to 6pm
8 oct. from 10am to 6pm
9 oct. from 10am to 6pm
Caserne El Attarine
Director/writer/editor: Sanaz Sohrabi
Sound Design: Chris Leon
Music: Jeremy Leon
With the support from Fonds de Recherche du Québec Société et Culture Doctoral Fellowship (FRQSC) and Forum Transregionale Studien (Berlin, Germany), and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (Maine, United States).
Video
One Image, Two Acts unravels the multifaceted and intertwined systems of oil infrastructures spanned and accumulated across unlikely geographies and material temporalities. Examining the photographic and film archives of British Petroleum (BP) during its operations in Iran, Iraq, and Kuwait, this film traces the visual and media infrastructures through which oil has operated as an agent of power in the colonial episteme.
It unpacks BP’s widespread construction of cinemas in the oil towns of South-Western Iran and follows the transformation of this emergent image economy in contouring the nationalization movement and the anti-colonial cinema between 1950-1980 in Iran.