“ONE IMAGE, TWO ACTS”: A Film Screening and Discussion with Sanaz Sohrabi

“One Image, Two Acts” unravels the multifaceted systems of oil infrastructures spanned 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 anti-colonial cinema between 1950-1980 in Iran. 

This event is free, but registration is required: bit.ly/NYUISI0224