the island الجزيرة
24 Minutes
Razan AlSalah
Experimental Documentary
2022 - Canada
International 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.
Razan ALSalah
Based in Tio'tia:ke/Montreal, Razan AlSalah is a Palestinian artist and teacher investigating the material aesthetics of dis/appearance of places and people in the context of colonial image worlds. Her work has shown at community-based and international film festivals & galleries including Art of the Real, Prismatic Ground, RIDM, HotDocs, Yebisu, Melbourne, Glasgow and Beirut International, Sharjah Film Forum and Sursock Museum. AlSalah currently teaches Intermedia and Moving Images at Concordia University in Tio'tia:ke/Montreal.