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A Stone's Throw

2024

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Documentary

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40'

by Razan AlSalah رزان الصالح

[Canada, Lebanon, and Palestine]

Part of Archives of Belonging.

Greek and English subtitles

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Synopsis

Amine, a Palestinian elder, is exiled twice from land and labour. He is displaced from his birthplace Haifa seeking refuge in Beirut, and again to Zirku Island, for work on an offshore oil platform and a work camp in the Arab Gulf. A Stone’s Throw trespasses borders to reveal an emotional and material proximity between the extraction of oil and labour in the region and the Zionist colonization of Palestine. Razan Al Salah’s film revisits an emblematic moment of the Palestinian resistance when, in 1936, the oil labourers of Haifa blew up a BP pipeline.

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Biography

Razan AlSalah رزان الصالح is a Palestinian artist and filmmaker based in Montreal, where she teaches intermedia and moving images at Concordia University. Her work follows the disappearance of indigenous bodies, narratives and histories inside colonial image worlds. Her films have shown at FID Marseille, Doclisboa, Yamagata, BlackStar and Open City, and she is a member of the Regards palestiniens collective.

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