A Spoon Is a Stone
A Spoon is a Stone (2025, 4:54 min.) is set in Hebron—an intensely militarized and surveilled zone in the West Bank, and widely regarded as one of the most monitored cities globally. The film examines the politics of vision under Israeli occupation, where seeing becomes an act of subjugation that turns the image into a site of struggle. Told through the voice of a surveillance camera developing a conscience, the narration slips from mechanical observation into doubt—fractured by uncertainty and moral tension.
The script draws from a real incident in which a camera misidentified a spoon dropped by a young Palestinian girl as a thrown stone. This misreading becomes a lens through which the film questions how violence is authorized through vision—how the line between evidence and interpretation blurs under the mechanical gaze of power.
Interwoven into the film is also the story of six imprisoned Palestinians who tunneled to freedom using spoons—a gesture of endurance later absorbed by global media as cinematic spectacle. Through this oscillation between resistance and representation, A Spoon is a Stone treats the image not as a neutral record but as an unstable surface—where afterimage become forms of resistance.