Basma Alsharif

Basma Alsharif

Basma Alsharif is an Artist/Filmmaker born in Kuwait to Palestinian parents, raised between France and the US. Since receiving a Master of Fine Arts in 2007 from the University of Illinois at Chicago, she developed her practice nomadically between Chicago, Cairo, Beirut, Sharjah, Amman, the Gaza Strip and Paris. Basma's work centers on the human condition in relation to shifting geopolitical landscapes and natural environments. Interested in what cannot ever be proven or explained, she uses photography, film, video, sound, language and performance to reveal the fallibility of our perception and of history. Engaging with politics on a visceral level through pieces characterized by their immersive, lyrical qualities, Alsharif creates familiar environments that lure us into unsettling experiences of being comfortable and foreign simultaneously.

  • Title: Basma Alsharif
  • Popularity: 0.237
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1983-01-01
  • Place of Birth: Kuwait
  • Homepage: http://basmalsharif.com/home.html
  • Also Known As: Basma al-Sharif
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Basma Alsharif Movies

  • 2019
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    Two Sisters Who Are Not Sisters

    Two Sisters Who Are Not Sisters

    1 2019 HD

    Based on Gertrude Stein’s eponymously named screenplay, written in 1929 as European fascism was building momentum. Beatrice Gibson’s...

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  • 2014
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    Light Licks: Pardes: Drowned Hat Rescue Media City Motown Jump

    Light Licks: Pardes: Drowned Hat Rescue Media City Motown Jump

    1 2014 HD

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  • 2009
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    We Began by Measuring Distance

    We Began by Measuring Distance

    5 2009 HD

    Short film about the politics of measuring.

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  • 2013
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    Home Movies Gaza

    Home Movies Gaza

    1 2013 HD

    A travelogue in the Gaza strip.

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  • 2009
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    We Began by Measuring Distance

    We Began by Measuring Distance

    5 2009 HD

    Short film about the politics of measuring.

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  • 2013
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    Home Movies Gaza

    Home Movies Gaza

    1 2013 HD

    A travelogue in the Gaza strip.

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  • 2013
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    Farther Than the Eye Can See

    Farther Than the Eye Can See

    1 2013 HD

    A woman recounts her story of the mass exodus of Palestinians from Jerusalem, beginning with the arrival and ending with the departure. The tale...

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  • 2015
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    A Field Guide to the Ferns

    A Field Guide to the Ferns

    1 2015 HD

    Deep in the woods of New Hampshire, apathy and violence are blurred. A horror nature film develops, as Basma Alsharif fuses images from Ruggero...

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  • 2015
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    Renée’s Room

    Renée’s Room

    1 2015 HD

    for the installation: Renée’s Room

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  • 2015
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    Renée’s Room

    Renée’s Room

    1 2015 HD

    for the installation: Renée’s Room

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  • 2014
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    High Noon

    High Noon

    1 2014 HD

    High Noon is the meeting between the Southern Californian landscape with that of the South-Eastern landscape of Onomichi Japan as an experience of...

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  • 2014
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    Untitled (Lyndsay Bloom)

    Untitled (Lyndsay Bloom)

    1 2014 HD

    a 3 minute camera edit blends the slow motion image of a woman walking into a river over the course of an hour.

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  • 2014
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    Deep Sleep

    Deep Sleep

    5.8 2014 HD

    A transfixing performance film in which artist Basma Alsharif shoots footage in Athens, Malta and the "post-civilization" of the Gaza Strip while...

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  • 2014
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    Deep Sleep

    Deep Sleep

    5.8 2014 HD

    A transfixing performance film in which artist Basma Alsharif shoots footage in Athens, Malta and the "post-civilization" of the Gaza Strip while...

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  • 2014
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    Atlantis

    Atlantis

    6.4 2014 HD

    A documentary portrait of Utopia, loosely framed by Plato’s invocation of the lost continent of Atlantis in 360 BC and its re-resurrection via...

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  • 2014
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    Atlantis

    Atlantis

    6.4 2014 HD

    A documentary portrait of Utopia, loosely framed by Plato’s invocation of the lost continent of Atlantis in 360 BC and its re-resurrection via...

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  • 2017
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    Ouroboros

    Ouroboros

    5 2017 HD

    This film is an homage to the Gaza Strip and to the possibility of hope beyond hopelessness. Ouroboros, the symbol of the snake eating its tail, is...

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  • 2017
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    Ouroboros

    Ouroboros

    5 2017 HD

    This film is an homage to the Gaza Strip and to the possibility of hope beyond hopelessness. Ouroboros, the symbol of the snake eating its tail, is...

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  • 2017
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    Ouroboros

    Ouroboros

    5 2017 HD

    This film is an homage to the Gaza Strip and to the possibility of hope beyond hopelessness. Ouroboros, the symbol of the snake eating its tail, is...

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  • 2011
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    The Story of Milk and Honey

    The Story of Milk and Honey

    6 2011 HD

    The Story of Milk and Honey is a short experimental video belonging to a larger project, which includes photographs, drawings and text, detailing an...

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  • 2022
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    Capital

    Capital

    1 2022 HD

    Capital was shot at various locations including the CityLife residential complex in Milan, the Nile riverfront in Cairo, residential neighborhoods in...

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  • 2014
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    Deep Sleep

    Deep Sleep

    5.8 2014 HD

    A transfixing performance film in which artist Basma Alsharif shoots footage in Athens, Malta and the "post-civilization" of the Gaza Strip while...

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  • 2010
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    Turkish Delight

    Turkish Delight

    1 2010 HD

    Super 8mm film transferred to digital video. Installation composed of footage from three separate sequences that interweave frame by frame. Shot in...

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  • 2012
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    Everywhere Was The Same

    Everywhere Was The Same

    1 2012 HD

    A slideshow of abandoned spaces carries along the story of two girls who mysteriously turn up on the shores of a pre-apocalyptic paradise. Factual...

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  • 2014
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    O, Persecuted

    O, Persecuted

    1 2014 HD

    Bombers flying over Palestine, PFLP soldiers, civilians taking cover in shelters; through footage from a 1974 film by Kassem Hawal, the oppressed...

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  • 2016
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    Trompe l’oeil

    Trompe l’oeil

    1 2016 HD

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