Sahnehaye Estekhraj
Scenes of Extraction

Sahnehaye Estekhraj | Scenes of Extraction by Sanaz Sohrabi
CAN 2023, Forum Expanded
© Sanaz Sohrabi / VOX, Center for Contemporary Images, Montréal. Images reproduced with the permission of BP p.l.c.

Sahnehaye Estekhraj | Scenes of Extraction by Sanaz Sohrabi
CAN 2023, Forum Expanded
© Sanaz Sohrabi / VOX, Center for Contemporary Images, Montréal. Images reproduced with the permission of BP p.l.c.

Sahnehaye Estekhraj | Scenes of Extraction by Sanaz Sohrabi
CAN 2023, Forum Expanded
© Sanaz Sohrabi / VOX, Center for Contemporary Images, Montréal. Images reproduced with the permission of BP p.l.c.
Crew
Director | Sanaz Sohrabi |
Screenplay | Sanaz Sohrabi |
Editing | Sanaz Sohrabi |
Music | Showan Tavakol |
Sound Design | Chris Leon |
Sound | Chris Leon |
Animation | Siavash Naghshbandi |
Production Manager | Sanaz Sohrabi |
Producer | Sanaz Sohrabi |
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Vox, Center for Contemporary Images

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Sanaz Sohrabi

Sanaz Sohrabi is a researcher of visual culture and filmmaker. She 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 exhibitions and festivals.
Filmography
2015 Disposables; 7 min. 2016 Auxiliary Mirror; 12 min. 2017 The glory, the human, and the mother: a cartography; 17 min. 2018 Script for Groundless Images; 13 min. · Notes on Seeing Double; 11 min. 2020 One Image, Two Acts; 45 min. 2023 Sahnehaye Estekhraj (Scenes of Extraction)
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2023