OilScapes // Film — Artists' Film Screenings

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From the Cromarty Firth to small-town Pennsylvania, from Oil Rocks (Stalin's city of oil rigs built in the Caspian Sea) to the building sites of Dubai, these works bear testimony to the cross-circulation of oil imagery that makes connections between disparate locations and across time. Many of these works also reflect on their own materiality as it relates to oil, meditating on questions of sustainability, decay and entropy, and so attending to the ecology of images. Artists' Films: The Dubai in Me - Rendering The World (2010) Christian Borries, 78 mins Petrolia (2005) Emily Richardson, 21 mins Naft Sefid/White Oil (2005) Mahmoud Rahmani, 16 mins Oil (2003) Murad Ibragimbekov, 6 mins Civilization (2009) Murad Ibragimbekov, 5 mins Dead Reckoning (2012) Stephen Hurrel, 13 mins