Directing · geboren 1983-01-01 · Kuwait

Basma al-Sharif

Basma al-Sharif 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.

Bekannt aus

• Deep Sleep (2014) – Director of Photography
• Atlantis (2014) – Thanks
• Ouroboros (2017) – Director
• The Story of Milk and Honey (2011) – Director
• Morgenkreis (2025) – Director
• We Began by Measuring Distance (2009) – Director
• It's So Beautiful Here (2025) – Director
• Deux Soeurs Qui Ne Sont Pas Soeurs (2019)
• Light Licks: Pardes: Drowned Hat Rescue Media City Motown Jump (2014)
• Home Movies Gaza (2013) – Director
• Farther Than the Eye Can See (2013) – Director
• A Field Guide to the Ferns (2015) – Director
• High Noon (2014) – Director
• Untitled (Lyndsay Bloom) (2014) – Director
• Renée’s Room (2015) – Director
• Capital (2022) – Director
• Turkish Delight (2010) – Director
• Everywhere Was The Same (2012) – Director
• O, Persecuted (2014) – Director
• Trompe l’oeil (2016) – Director
• Old Masters (2025) – Director