Directing
Basma Alsharif
DE, AR, EN, FR cinema · 21 credits
Born
1 January 1983 (age 43)
Birthplace
Kuwait
Also known as Basma al-Sharif
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.
Known for
Filmography
Morning Circle
Director
Capital
Director
Ouroboros
Writer, Editor, Director
Renée’s Room
2015
Renée’s Room
Director of Photography, Director
Deep Sleep
Director of Photography, Director, Editor
Atlantis
Thanks, Sound Recordist
O, Persecuted
Director
Home Movies Gaza
Writer, Director
