Basma Alsharif
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- January 1, 1983
- Place of birth
- Kuwait
Biography
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.
Movies with Basma Alsharif
Movies directed by Basma Alsharif
- Deep Sleep 2014 · ★ 5.8
- Ouroboros 2017 · ★ 5.0
- The Story of Milk and Honey 2011 · ★ 6.0
- Morning Circle 2025 · ★ 7.0
- We Began by Measuring Distance 2009 · ★ 5.0
- It's So Beautiful Here 2025 · ★ 8.0
- Home Movies Gaza 2013
- Farther Than the Eye Can See 2013
- A Field Guide to the Ferns 2015
- Renée’s Room 2015
- High Noon 2014
- Untitled (Lyndsay Bloom) 2014
- Capital 2022
- Turkish Delight 2010
- Everywhere Was The Same 2012
- O, Persecuted 2014
- Trompe l’oeil 2016
- Old Masters 2025