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two men in a black and white photo in the desert with one pointing out to the horizon and the other behind a 1950s motion film camera
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Archival photograph on the back cover of “Pipeline Cinema: The Cultural Infrastructure of Oil Extraction in Iran and Iraq” (UC Press, 2025) by Mona Damluji

How oil companies shaped early cinema in Iran and Iraq

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Playing With Language
Bhangra dancers, Dhadkan

High-Octane Philanthropy

The Ripple Effects of a Cinematic Wave
UCSB hosts an open house of visual and performing arts

Arts Walk 2019

Curatorial Conversations

Design and Construction

Science as Art

‘Day and Night‘

An Animated Life

‘Elegant Music’

Drawing on Experience

Designs on the Future
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