Basma Alsharif Movies
- 2017
Ouroboros
Ouroboros52017HD
This film is an homage to the Gaza Strip and to the possibility of hope beyond hopelessness. Ouroboros, the symbol of the snake eating its tail, is...
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- 2014
Atlantis
Atlantis6.42014HD
A documentary portrait of Utopia, loosely framed by Plato’s invocation of the lost continent of Atlantis in 360 BC and its re-resurrection via...
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- 2014
Deep Sleep
Deep Sleep5.82014HD
A transfixing performance film in which artist Basma Alsharif shoots footage in Athens, Malta and the "post-civilization" of the Gaza Strip while...
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- 2019
Two Sisters Who Are Not Sisters
Two Sisters Who Are Not Sisters02019HD
Based on Gertrude Stein’s eponymously named screenplay, written in 1929 as European fascism was building momentum. Beatrice Gibson’s...
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- 2014
Light Licks: Pardes: Drowned Hat Rescue Media City Motown Jump
Light Licks: Pardes: Drowned Hat Rescue Media City Motown Jump02014HD
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- 2011
The Story of Milk and Honey
The Story of Milk and Honey62011HD
The Story of Milk and Honey is a short experimental video belonging to a larger project, which includes photographs, drawings and text, detailing an...
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- 2015
A Field Guide to the Ferns
A Field Guide to the Ferns02015HD
Deep in the woods of New Hampshire, apathy and violence are blurred. A horror nature film develops, as Basma Alsharif fuses images from Ruggero...
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- 2009
We Began by Measuring Distance
We Began by Measuring Distance52009HD
Short film about the politics of measuring.
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- 2022
Capital
Capital02022HD
Capital was shot at various locations including the CityLife residential complex in Milan, the Nile riverfront in Cairo, residential neighborhoods in...
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- 2013
Home Movies Gaza
Home Movies Gaza02013HD
A travelogue in the Gaza strip.
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- 2014
High Noon
High Noon02014HD
High Noon is the meeting between the Southern Californian landscape with that of the South-Eastern landscape of Onomichi Japan as an experience of...
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- 2015
Renée’s Room
Renée’s Room02015HD
for the installation: Renée’s Room
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- 2013
Farther Than the Eye Can See
Farther Than the Eye Can See02013HD
A woman recounts her story of the mass exodus of Palestinians from Jerusalem, beginning with the arrival and ending with the departure. The tale...
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- 2014
O, Persecuted
O, Persecuted02014HD
Bombers flying over Palestine, PFLP soldiers, civilians taking cover in shelters; through footage from a 1974 film by Kassem Hawal, the oppressed...
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- 2016
Trompe l’oeil
Trompe l’oeil02016HD
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- 2012
Everywhere Was The Same
Everywhere Was The Same02012HD
A slideshow of abandoned spaces carries along the story of two girls who mysteriously turn up on the shores of a pre-apocalyptic paradise. Factual...
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- 2010
Turkish Delight
Turkish Delight02010HD
Super 8mm film transferred to digital video. Installation composed of footage from three separate sequences that interweave frame by frame. Shot in...
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- 2014
Untitled (Lyndsay Bloom)
Untitled (Lyndsay Bloom)02014HD
a 3 minute camera edit blends the slow motion image of a woman walking into a river over the course of an hour.
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