An elderly Palestinian is displaced from his birthplace Haifa, seeking refuge in Beirut, and again to work on an offshore oil platform and in a work camp in the Arab Gulf. The film trespasses borders to reveal an emotional and material proximity between oil extraction and labor in the region and the Zionist colonization of Palestine. It rehearses a history of Palestinian resistance when, in 1936, Haifa oil workers blew up a BP pipeline.
Based in Tiotiake/Montreal, Razan AlSalah is a Palestinian artist exploring the material aesthetics of dis/appearance in colonial contexts. She is a recipient of multiple grants, including the 2022-24 Canada Arts Council Grant, the 2021 Sundance Grant as well as the recipient of the Knight Foundation New Frontier Fellowship at Sundance. Her work has been showcased at international festivals such as FID Marseille, HotDocs, Prismatic Ground and galleries. Razan teaches film and media arts at the Communication Studies department at Concordia University.
Available for online screening from 10 December
