Scenes of Extraction by Sanaz Sohrabi
Screening
February 15–16, 2023 at 00:00–00:00pm
In-Person
Berlin International Film Festival, Potsdamer Platz 11, 10785 Berlin, Germany
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“Sanaz Sohrabi creates an archival constellation from the still and moving images of the British Petroleum Archives, documenting the expansive colonial network behind the British geophysical expeditions that spanned across Iran in the early 20th century.”
Scenes of Extraction will have its World premiere at Berlinale Forum Expanded from February 16-26.
“Scenes of Extraction” creates an archival constellation with the still and moving images of British Petroleum Archives, documenting the expansive colonial network behind the British geophysical expeditions that spanned across Iran, but also reached other British oil operations in South East Asia. It weaves through decades of archival documents to parse out the visual history of the “Reflection Seismography” method for oil exploration which was heavily tested across the Iranian oil belt despite its destructive and probable nature. The film unpacks the relationship between the political economy of photography, archival technologies, and the visual history of resource extraction in Iran.”