After the initial live event, the program will be available for on-demand viewing until 12am midnight EDT on 3/31
This program of contemporary documentary, experimental, and animated films features cinemas as the contested emblem of colonial development, sounds modulated by the speed of a rotating loudspeaker, a 9-mile long frozen lake in the Adirondacks, and one of the classic representations of infinity.
Sponsor: Detroit Metro Times
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.
- Year2020
- Runtime45 minutes
- CountryCanada, Germany, United States, Iran
- PremiereUnited States Premiere
- NoteMontreal, Quebec / Berlin, Germany / Chicago, Illinois / Tehran, Iran
- FilmmakerSanaz Sohrabi
After the initial live event, the program will be available for on-demand viewing until 12am midnight EDT on 3/31
This program of contemporary documentary, experimental, and animated films features cinemas as the contested emblem of colonial development, sounds modulated by the speed of a rotating loudspeaker, a 9-mile long frozen lake in the Adirondacks, and one of the classic representations of infinity.
Sponsor: Detroit Metro Times
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.
- Year2020
- Runtime45 minutes
- CountryCanada, Germany, United States, Iran
- PremiereUnited States Premiere
- NoteMontreal, Quebec / Berlin, Germany / Chicago, Illinois / Tehran, Iran
- FilmmakerSanaz Sohrabi