Basma Alsharif

Capital (2022)

Capital was shot at various locations including the CityLife residential complex in Milan, the Nile riverfront in Cairo, residential neighborhoods in Alexandria, and construction sites of new cities—places where architectural histories are romanticized e ...

Ouroboros (2017)

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 both end and beginning: death as regeneration. A 74-minute experimental narrative film that turns the destru ...

Trompe l’oeil (2016)

An installation that takes over the space of the exhibition to re-establish it as a room in which all the elements that comprise the mise-en-scene are careful disruptions of a scene. ...

Renée’s Room (2015)

for the installation: Renée's Room ...

A Field Guide to the Ferns (2015)

Deep in the woods of New Hampshire, apathy and violence are blurred. A horror nature film develops, as Basma Alsharif fuses images from Ruggero Deodato's "timeless slice of visceral horror," Cannibal Holocaust, a self-referential study of sorts of the repr ...

Atlantis (2014)

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 a 1970s science fiction pulp novel. ...

O, Persecuted (2014)

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

Deep Sleep (2014)

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

High Noon (2014)

High Noon is the meeting between the Southern Californian landscape with that of the South-Eastern landscape of Onomichi Japan as an experience of the gravitational pull towards the center of the earth, with the knowledge that we are sometimes standing on ...

Farther Than the Eye Can See (2013)

A woman recounts her story of the mass exodus of Palestinians from Jerusalem, beginning with the arrival and ending with the departure. The tale moves backwards in time and through various landscapes but the events are not being undone and the story has no ...

Home Movies Gaza (2013)

An attempt to describe the everyday of a place that struggles for the most basic human rights: the Gaza Strip as a microcosm for the failure of civilization. ...

Everywhere Was The Same (2012)

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 texts drawn from the Madrid Peace Accords to the CIA World Factbook are weaved into a fictional narrative tha ...

The Story of Milk and Honey (2011)

The Story of Milk and Honey is a short experimental video belonging to a larger project, which includes photographs, drawings and text, detailing an unnamed individual's failure to write a love story about the Levant, as if it were a classical Arabic song. ...

Turkish Delight (2010)

Super 8mm film transferred to digital video. Installation composed of footage from three separate sequences that interweave frame by frame. Shot in the interiors of empty homes in Amman, Jordan. Sound composed of recording of food ingredients for unspecifi ...

Two Sisters Who Are Not Sisters (2019)

Based on Gertrude Stein's eponymously named screenplay, written in 1929 as European fascism was building momentum. Beatrice Gibson's adaptation, set almost a century later in contemporary Paris, deploys Stein's script as a talismanic guide through a contem ...

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