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One Image, Two Acts

One Image, Two Acts

Documentary
November 12, 20200h 45m
Overview

One Image, Two Acts examines the photographic archives of British Petroleum during its operations in Iran, unraveling BP’s widespread construction of cinemas in the oil towns of Iran. The film is a coalescence of infrastructures, images, and archives of oil wherein cinematic time and geological time mobilize different sites, temporalities, and numerous material modalities in the colonial episteme.

Director
Sanaz Sohrabi
Sanaz Sohrabi