Basma Alsharif Movies
- 2011
The Story of Milk and Honey
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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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- 2017
Ouroboros
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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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- 2013
Home Movies Gaza
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A travelogue in the Gaza strip.
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- 2014
Atlantis
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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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- 2022
Capital
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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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- 2019
Two Sisters Who Are Not Sisters
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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
Deep Sleep
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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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- 2014
High Noon
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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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- 2009
We Began by Measuring Distance
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Short film about the politics of measuring.
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- 2015
A Field Guide to the Ferns
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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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- 2014
Light Licks: Pardes: Drowned Hat Rescue Media City Motown Jump
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- 2014
O, Persecuted
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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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- 2013
Farther Than the Eye Can See
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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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- 2015
Renée’s Room
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for the installation: Renée’s Room
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- 2012
Everywhere Was The Same
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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
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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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- 2016
Trompe l’oeil
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- 2014
Untitled (Lyndsay Bloom)
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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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