Kareem Al Sawalmeh
A day in the life of a spoon takes a dramatic turn as the common kitchen utensil becomes the key catalyst of a prison escape that embodies the resilient spirit of the Palestinian struggle for freedom. Presented through an abstracted perspective and visual storytelling style, this poetic short takes the liberatory ideals of the now infamous Gilboa prison escape and generalizes them onto a much more encompassing demographic: freedom defenders worldwide.
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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.
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