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Basma Alsharif
Kuwait
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…
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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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2025
Morning Circle
Movie Director
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2025
Old Masters
Movie Director
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2025
It's So Beautiful Here
Movie Director
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2022
Capital
Movie Director
- 2019
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2017
Ouroboros
Movie Director
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2016
Trompe l’oeil
Movie Director
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2015
Renée’s Room
Movie Director
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2015
A Field Guide to the Ferns
Movie Director
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2014
Atlantis
Movie Thanks
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2014
O, Persecuted
Movie Director
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2014
Deep Sleep
Movie Director of Photography
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2014
High Noon
Movie Director
- 2014
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2014
Untitled (Lyndsay Bloom)
Movie Director
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2013
Farther Than the Eye Can See
Movie Director
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2013
Home Movies Gaza
Movie Director
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2012
Everywhere Was The Same
Movie Director
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2011
The Story of Milk and Honey
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2010
Turkish Delight
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2009
We Began by Measuring Distance
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