re:assemblage collective

A Stone's Throw

Directed by Razan AlSalah
Canada/Lebanon/Palestine · 2024 · 40'00

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 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. The film rehearses a history of the Palestinian resistance when, in 1936, the oil labourers of Haifa blew up a BP pipeline.

Razan is a Palestinian artist and teacher based in Tiotiake/Montreal.

Her films work with the material aesthetics of appearance and disappearance of indigenous bodies, narratives and histories in colonial image worlds.

She often works with sound-images to infiltrate borders that have severed us from the land. Her films are both ghostly trespasses, and seeping ruptures, of the colonial image, that functions as a border, as a wall.

She thinks of her creative process as a circle of relations with artists, friends, family, technology, images, plants, objects and sounds…and the unknown. These relations become different points of entry and exit into elsewheres here, where colonialism no longer makes sense. [↗]