Basma Alsharif Movies

  • 2014
    Atlantis

    Atlantis

    Atlantis

    6.42014HD

    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...

    Atlantis
  • 2011
    The Story of Milk and Honey

    The Story of Milk and Honey

    The Story of Milk and Honey

    62011HD

    The Story of Milk and Honey is a short experimental video belonging to a larger project, which includes photographs, drawings and text, detailing an...

    The Story of Milk and Honey
  • 2017
    Ouroboros

    Ouroboros

    Ouroboros

    52017HD

    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...

    Ouroboros
  • 2014
    Deep Sleep

    Deep Sleep

    Deep Sleep

    5.82014HD

    A transfixing performance film in which artist Basma Alsharif shoots footage in Athens, Malta and the "post-civilization" of the Gaza Strip while...

    Deep Sleep
  • 2019
    Two Sisters Who Are Not Sisters

    Two Sisters Who Are Not Sisters

    Two Sisters Who Are Not Sisters

    02019HD

    Based on Gertrude Stein’s eponymously named screenplay, written in 1929 as European fascism was building momentum. Beatrice Gibson’s...

    Two Sisters Who Are Not Sisters
  • 2022
    Capital

    Capital

    Capital

    02022HD

    Capital was shot at various locations including the CityLife residential complex in Milan, the Nile riverfront in Cairo, residential neighborhoods in...

    Capital
  • 2014
    Light Licks: Pardes: Drowned Hat Rescue Media City Motown Jump

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

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

    02014HD

    Light Licks: Pardes: Drowned Hat Rescue Media City Motown Jump
  • 2013
    Home Movies Gaza

    Home Movies Gaza

    Home Movies Gaza

    02013HD

    A travelogue in the Gaza strip.

    Home Movies Gaza
  • 2015
    A Field Guide to the Ferns

    A Field Guide to the Ferns

    A Field Guide to the Ferns

    02015HD

    Deep in the woods of New Hampshire, apathy and violence are blurred. A horror nature film develops, as Basma Alsharif fuses images from Ruggero...

    A Field Guide to the Ferns
  • 2014
    High Noon

    High Noon

    High Noon

    02014HD

    High Noon is the meeting between the Southern Californian landscape with that of the South-Eastern landscape of Onomichi Japan as an experience of...

    High Noon
  • 2009
    We Began by Measuring Distance

    We Began by Measuring Distance

    We Began by Measuring Distance

    52009HD

    Short film about the politics of measuring.

    We Began by Measuring Distance
  • 2014
    O, Persecuted

    O, Persecuted

    O, Persecuted

    02014HD

    Bombers flying over Palestine, PFLP soldiers, civilians taking cover in shelters; through footage from a 1974 film by Kassem Hawal, the oppressed...

    O, Persecuted
  • 2015
    Renée’s Room

    Renée’s Room

    Renée’s Room

    02015HD

    for the installation: Renée’s Room

    Renée’s Room
  • 2010
    Turkish Delight

    Turkish Delight

    Turkish Delight

    02010HD

    Super 8mm film transferred to digital video. Installation composed of footage from three separate sequences that interweave frame by frame. Shot in...

    Turkish Delight
  • 2013
    Farther Than the Eye Can See

    Farther Than the Eye Can See

    Farther Than the Eye Can See

    02013HD

    A woman recounts her story of the mass exodus of Palestinians from Jerusalem, beginning with the arrival and ending with the departure. The tale...

    Farther Than the Eye Can See
  • 2016
    Trompe l’oeil

    Trompe l’oeil

    Trompe l’oeil

    02016HD

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    Trompe l’oeil
  • 2014
    Untitled (Lyndsay Bloom)

    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.

    Untitled (Lyndsay Bloom)
  • 2012
    Everywhere Was The Same

    Everywhere Was The Same

    Everywhere Was The Same

    02012HD

    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...

    Everywhere Was The Same