The archive, the document, subjective perspective, and conceptual framing entwine to produce unique forms of cinema. Two takes on the archive: past and future...With a particular focus on the historical ethnographic film and photographic surveys, ONE IMAGE, TWO ACTS (2020, dir. Sanaz Sohrabi, 45 min.) is a coalescence of infrastructures, images, and archives of oil wherein cinematic time and geological time mobilize different sites, temporalities, and materialities. Using the senses of sight, touch, and sound as the conceptual frame to generate three factory portraits, THE UNSTABLE OBJECT (2011, dir. Daniel Eisenberg, 69 min.) begins a series of films depicting labor at a moment of its extreme instability, and raising the question of value, in all its forms. Sohrabi in conversation via Zoom.