A Stone’s Throw
على مر مى حجر- PALESTINE, LEBANON, CANADA / 2024 / Arabic, English / Color / DCP / 40 min
Director, Photography: Razan AlSalah
Appearance: Amine
Creative Producer: Sharlene Bamboat
Editing, Sound Design: Kaija Siirala
Music Composition: Stormstrap (aka Abdulhadi Hashem)
Sound Mixing: Chris Leon
Voices: Anas AlSalah, Lotfi AlSalah, Hoda Adra, Laila Ait Bouchtba, Dima Ayyoub, Sharlene Bamboat, Stormstrap (aka Abdulhadi Hashem), Razan AlSalah
Source: Razan AlSalah
The oil industry—and climate change, for which it is one cause—are deeply connected to colonialism. Haifa is the hometown of Amine, a Palestinian who was driven from the city, and it is also the terminal point of a pipeline that Palestinians exploded several times as part of their resistance movement. After fleeing to Lebanon, Amine worked as a laborer in the oil industry on Zirku Island. Intersecting with technology, memory, and documentation, this one man’s story reexamines the history of control and resistance around oil. The voice of Amine, who has lived on an island where filming is prohibited, evokes Palestine even more vividly. (HN)
[Director’s Statement] Amine, a Palestinian elder, is exiled twice from land and labor: from Haifa to Beirut, then to a Gulf offshore oil platform. This film rehearses a history of the Palestinian resistance when, in 1936, the oil labourers of Haifa blow up a BP pipeline.
Razan AlSalahPalestinian filmmaker and teacher based in Tiotiake/ Montreal.