Synopsis
In 1936, a record emerged of one of the earliest demonstrations of resistance: in Haifa, a Palestinian port city, a group detonated a pipeline belonging to British Petroleum, a company that had already announced, prior to World War II, its intentions for full-scale colonial occupation in the region. Drawing from an archival photograph, the testimony of an exiled Palestinian elder, and Google Earth images of a ‘secret’ island in the Persian Gulf, the reconstruction, through the margins of images, unveils an entire history about the planned massacre of a people. (C.A.)
This short is a part of PGM 1 and will be screened with “Living Beings” e “Our Islands”
Trailer
Director
Razan AlSalah
Based in Tio'tia:ke/Montreal, Razan AlSalah is a Palestinian artist investigating the material aesthetics of dis/appearance of places and people in colonial image worlds. Her work has shown at Art of the Real, Prismatic Ground, Blackstar, RIDM, HotDocs, Yebisu, Melbourne, Glasgow and Beirut International, Sharjah Film Forum and Sursock Museum. Razan teaches film and media arts at Concordia University.