Person

Basma Alsharif

Directing · Born 1983-01-01 · Kuwait

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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  Ouroboros

  Director

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  Two Sisters Who Are Not Sisters

  2019

• Renée’s Room

  Director

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  Capital

  Director

• High Noon

  Director

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  Atlantis

  Thanks

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  Turkish Delight

  Director

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  Light Licks: Pardes: Drowned Hat Rescue Media City Motown Jump

  2014

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  Morning Circle

  Director

• Old Masters

  Director

• 2025Morning CircleDirector
• 2025It's So Beautiful HereDirector
• 2022CapitalDirector
• 2019Two Sisters Who Are Not Sisters
• 2017OuroborosDirector
• 2016Trompe l’oeilDirector
• 2015Renée’s RoomDirector
• 2015A Field Guide to the FernsDirector
• 2014AtlantisThanks
• 2014O, PersecutedDirector
• 2014Deep SleepDirector of Photography
• 2014Light Licks: Pardes: Drowned Hat Rescue Media City Motown Jump
• 2014High NoonDirector
• 2014Untitled (Lyndsay Bloom)Director
• 2013Farther Than the Eye Can SeeDirector
• 2013Home Movies GazaDirector
• 2012Everywhere Was The SameDirector
• 2011The Story of Milk and HoneyDirector
• 2010Turkish DelightDirector
• 2009We Began by Measuring DistanceDirector
• —Old MastersDirector