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Basma Alsharif (b. 1983)

Alias:
Basma al-Sharif

Birthplace:
Kuwait

Born:
January 1, 1983

Biography from TheMovieDB

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.

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Film Production

Director:
2009  We Began by Measuring Distance
2010  Turkish Delight
2011  The Story of Milk and Honey
2012  Everywhere Was The Same
2013  Farther Than the Eye Can See
2013  Home Movies Gaza
2014  Deep Sleep
2014  High Noon
2014  O, Persecuted
2014  Untitled (Lyndsay Bloom)
2015  A Field Guide to the Ferns
2015  Renée’s Room
2016  Trompe l’oeil
2017  Ouroboros
2022  Capital

Director of Photography:
2009  We Began by Measuring Distance
2010  Turkish Delight
2011  The Story of Milk and Honey
2012  Everywhere Was The Same
2013  Farther Than the Eye Can See
2013  Home Movies Gaza
2014  Deep Sleep
2014  High Noon
2014  O, Persecuted
2014  Untitled (Lyndsay Bloom)
2015  A Field Guide to the Ferns
2015  Renée’s Room
2016  Trompe l’oeil
2017  Ouroboros
2022  Capital

Editor:
2009  We Began by Measuring Distance
2010  Turkish Delight
2011  The Story of Milk and Honey
2012  Everywhere Was The Same
2013  Farther Than the Eye Can See
2013  Home Movies Gaza
2014  Deep Sleep
2014  High Noon
2014  O, Persecuted
2014  Untitled (Lyndsay Bloom)
2015  A Field Guide to the Ferns
2015  Renée’s Room
2016  Trompe l’oeil
2017  Ouroboros
2022  Capital

Sound Recordist:
2009  We Began by Measuring Distance
2010  Turkish Delight
2011  The Story of Milk and Honey
2012  Everywhere Was The Same
2013  Farther Than the Eye Can See
2013  Home Movies Gaza
2014  Atlantis
2014  Deep Sleep
2014  High Noon
2014  O, Persecuted
2014  Untitled (Lyndsay Bloom)
2015  A Field Guide to the Ferns
2015  Renée’s Room
2016  Trompe l’oeil
2017  Ouroboros
2022  Capital

Thanks:
2009  We Began by Measuring Distance
2010  Turkish Delight
2011  The Story of Milk and Honey
2012  Everywhere Was The Same
2013  Farther Than the Eye Can See
2013  Home Movies Gaza
2014  Atlantis
2014  Deep Sleep
2014  High Noon
2014  O, Persecuted
2014  Untitled (Lyndsay Bloom)
2015  A Field Guide to the Ferns
2015  Renée’s Room
2016  Trompe l’oeil
2017  Ouroboros
2022  Capital

Writer:
2009  We Began by Measuring Distance
2010  Turkish Delight
2011  The Story of Milk and Honey
2012  Everywhere Was The Same
2013  Farther Than the Eye Can See
2013  Home Movies Gaza
2014  Atlantis
2014  Deep Sleep
2014  High Noon
2014  O, Persecuted
2014  Untitled (Lyndsay Bloom)
2015  A Field Guide to the Ferns
2015  Renée’s Room
2016  Trompe l’oeil
2017  Ouroboros
2022  Capital

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