Lecture
Archive and Counter-Archive

Wed, 22.02.2023
7:00 PM ACUD Studio

Sanaz Sohrabi (b.1988, Tehran) is a researcher of visual culture and filmmaker. Sohrabi works with essay film and installation as her means of research to explore the shifting and migratory paths between still and moving images, situating a singular image in a continuum of historical relations and archival temporalities. Since 2017, Sohrabi has done extensive archival research at the British Petroleum archives to engage with the history of photography and film practices of the British controlled oil operations in Iran, conducting a visual ethnography of resource extraction in relation to the media infrastructures of BP.  Sohrabi’s works have been shown widely in solo and group exhibitions and festivals including: Berlinale Forum Expanded, International Film Festival Rotterdam, IndieLisboa (Silvestre Section Best Short Film), Iran Cinéma Vérité Festival (Winner of International Mid-length), Valdivia International Film Festival Chile (Special Jury Mention), Mimesis Documentary Film Festival (Best Documentary Short), Ann Arbor Film Festival (Jury Award),  Montréal International Documentary Film Festival (RIDM), Sheffield Doc/Fest, Kasseler Dokfest, Videonale, VideoEX Zurich, FIDBA Argentina, among others. Sohrabi’s recent exhibitions include SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, VOX Centre de l'image contemporaine, Montréal, Centre Clark, and Carpintarias de São Lázaro, Lisbon. 

Niyaz Saghari is an Iranian-born, Bristol-based filmmaker. Graduating from Film Directing from the University of Art in Tehran, she continued her studies for the MA in Animation at Newport. Her work focuses on urban life in her hometowns of Tehran and Bristol.