Palestinian artist and filmmaker Razan AlSalah speaks with Grace Han on “A Stone’s Throw,” on the occasion of the film screening at CAAMFest.
In this 40-minute mid-length film, she revisits the memories of Amine, her father, in light of a 1936 incident when oil workers in Haifa blew up a British Petroleum pipeline.
Parsing through layers of Python code, recorded conversations, and Google Street View, AlSalah discusses with us the political limits of the archive, the aestheticizing toll of computational extraction, and her thoughts on the recent Oscar winner, “No Other Land” (2025).
Video Interviews: Razan AlSalah
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Panos Kotzathanasis
Panagiotis (Panos) Kotzathanasis is a film critic and reviewer, specialized in Asian Cinema. He is the owner and administrator of Asian Movie Pulse, one of the biggest portals dealing with Asian cinema. He is a frequent writer in Hancinema, Taste of Cinema, and his texts can be found in a number of other publications including SIRP in Estonia, Film.sk in Slovakia, Asian Dialogue in the UK, Cinefil in Japan and Filmbuff in India.
Since 2019, he cooperates with Thessaloniki Cinematheque in Greece, curating various tributes to Asian cinema. He has participated, with video recordings and text, on a number of Asian movie releases, for Spectrum, Dekanalog and Error 4444. He has taken part as an expert on the Erasmus+ program, “Asian Cinema Education”, on the Asian Cinema Education International Journalism and Film Criticism Course.
Apart from a member of FIPRESCI and the Greek Cinema Critics Association, he is also a member of NETPAC, the Hellenic Film Academy and the Online Film Critics Association.
