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Sophia Al-Maria
Sophia Al Maria is an artist, writer and filmmaker. She studied comparative literature at the American University in Cairo, and aural and visual cultures at Goldsmiths, University…
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Sophia Al Maria is an artist, writer and filmmaker. She studied comparative literature at the American University in Cairo, and aural and visual cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. For the past few years, she has been carrying out research around the concept of Gulf Futurism. Her primary interests are around the isolation of individuals via technology and reactionary Islam, the corrosive elements of consumerism and industry, and the erasure of history and the blinding approach of a future no one is ready for. She explores these ideas with certain guidebooks and ideas including, but not limited to, Zizek’s The Desert of the Unreal, As-Sufi’s Islamic Book of the Dead, as well as imagery from Islamic eschatology, post humanism and the global mythos of Science Fiction.
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2022
MOBY DICK; or, The Whale
Movie Writer
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2022
Tiger Strike Red
Movie Director
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2021
Tender Point Ruin
Movie
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2021
Peculiar Contrast, Perfect Light
Movie Writer
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2020
Little Birds
TV show Writer
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2020
Beast Type Song
Movie Director
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2018
D0vedown
Movie Director
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2018
Not Really in Reality Reality TV
Movie Director
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2017
Fatima al Qadiri: Spiral ft. Bobo Secret
Movie Director
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2017
Mothership
Movie Director
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2017
The Magical State
Movie Director
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2017
Wayuu Creation Myth
Movie Director
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2016
Black Friday
Movie Director
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2016
The Future Was Desert (Part II)
Movie Director
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2014
A Whale Is A Whale Is A Whale
Movie Director
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2013
Slaughter
Movie Director
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Mirror Cookie
Movie Director
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Le Radeau de la Méduse
Movie Screenplay
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The Future Was Desert
Movie Director
