Sanaz Sohrabi
AN INCOMPLETE CALENDAR
Canada, Iran, Turchia, Venezuela 2026, 77’
This story about oil, music, and the Third World project departs from a vinyl recorded by the Central University of Venezuela choir in 1980 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), established in Baghdad in 1960. The film interweaves diverse elements from a previous installation – records, stamps, letters, magazines, films and photographs – into a lively composition of shots, music, and languages to expose how the journey to independence of Arab and other oil-exporting countries has remained “An Incomplete Calendar.” “Ongoing imperial interventions in Palestine, Iran, and the region urged me to create an archive from the peripheries. My goal is to bring to the fore a lost history that should not be forgotten.” (Sanaz Sohrabi)
Sanaz Sohrabi (1988, Tehran) is a researcher of visual culture and artist-filmmaker based in Montréal, working on visual histories of resource sovereignty and post-colonial ecologies from the Global South. Her films and installations have been shown and awarded in various festivals and biennials. An Incomplete Calendar is her first documentary feature and final episode of a trilogy of essay films that explore how visual cultures have developed alongside the history of oil extraction in Iran and Western Asia.
PRODUCERS: Sanaz Sohrabi, Burak Çevik
ARCHIVAL RESEARCH AND SCRIPT: Sanaz Sohrabi
EDITORS: Sanaz Sohrabi, Muhammad Nour El-Khairy
SOUND DESIGN: Chris Leon
MUSIC: Jeremy Leon
DOP (Tehran): Siavash Naghshbandi
DOP (Caracas): Ignacio Márquez
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