Basma Alsharif

Directing·Jan 1, 1983·Kuwait

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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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Morning Circle2025 · Director	Director
IIt's So Beautiful Here2025 · Director	Director
Capital2022 · Director	Director
Two Sisters Who Are Not Sisters2019 · Actor	Actor
Ouroboros2017 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
TTrompe l’oeil2016 · Director	Director
RRenée’s Room2015 · Director, Director of Photography	Director, Director of Photography
AA Field Guide to the Ferns2015 · Director	Director
O, Persecuted2014 · Director	Director
Deep Sleep2014 · Director of Photography, Director	Director of Photography, Director
Light Licks: Pardes: Drowned Hat Rescue Media City Motown Jump2014 · Actor	Actor
HHigh Noon2014 · Director	Director
UUntitled (Lyndsay Bloom)2014 · Director	Director
FFarther Than the Eye Can See2013 · Director	Director
Home Movies Gaza2013 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Everywhere Was The Same2012 · Director	Director
The Story of Milk and Honey2011 · Director	Director
Turkish Delight2010 · Director	Director
WWe Began by Measuring Distance2009 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
OOld MastersDirector	Director