the island الجزيرة
24 minutes
Razan AlSalah
Experimental Documentary
2022 - Canada
World Premiere
Arabic with English Subtitles
Amin is alienated twice, from land and labor. Oil flows from Haifa, Palestine to an island in the Gulf. European-Zionist colonialism aligns with capitalist extraction to displace and exploit a generation of Palestinians. But our struggle is creative, it changes, it continues.
With filming restricted by international borders and private property alike, the island الجزيرة was composed using a video call interview, oil & gas corporate films, maps, and a single archival image of the Haifa pipeline in 1938.
