A Stone’s Throw (2024)
Razan AlSalah
A Stone’s Throw, Razan AlSalah, Palestine/Canada, digital, 40 min, 2024
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 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 workers of Haifa blew up a BP pipeline.
Streaming Details
This film is available to stream globally.
Program Partners
This film is co-presented with Art Windsor-Essex and Prismatic Ground.
Image credits: all artworks, portraits, and stills courtesy the artist © Razan AlSalah
About the artist
Razan AlSalah (Palestine/Canada) is a Palestinian filmmaker, artist, and teacher born in Beirut in 1987. Her films engage with the material aesthetics of appearance and disappearance of indigenous bodies, narratives, and histories in colonial image worlds. She thinks of her creative process as a circle of relations with artists, friends, family, technology, images, plants, objects, sounds, and the unknown. She received an MFA in Film and Media Arts from Temple University (2017). Her work has been exhibited internationally at venues including HotDocs, Melbourne International Film Festival, Glasgow International Film Festival, BlackStar Film Festival, New Filmmakers New York, FIDMarseille, Prismatic Ground, Beirut International Film Festival, Sharjah Film Forum, and Wexner Center for the Arts, winning awards from Ann Arbor Film Festival and Days of Cinema Palestine, among others. She was a Knight Foundation New Frontier Fellow at Sundance Film Festival (2018), an Arab Fund for Arts and Culture Grantee (2020), and a mentor at the CAMRA Mellons Fellows Program at the University of Pennsylvania (2018). Her films are in the permanent collections of Sursock Museum in Beirut. She has curated film programs for Cinémathèque québécoise and contributed articles to C-Mag and other journals. She lives and works in Montréal/Tiotiake, where she teaches Intermedia and Moving Images at Concordia University.