About

Known credits:
26
Birthday:
1983-01-01
Place of birth:
Kuwait
Website:

Basma Alsharif

Overview

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.

Known for

Acting

2019 Two Sisters Who Are Not Sisters Actor N/A
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2014 Light Licks: Pardes: Drowned Hat Rescue Media City Motown Jump Actor N/A
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Directing

2020 Capital Directing Director N/A
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2017 Ouroboros Directing Director 59
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2016 Trompe l’oeil Directing Director N/A
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2015 Renée’s Room Directing Director N/A
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2015 A Field Guide to the Ferns Directing Director N/A
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2014 Deep Sleep Directing Director 59
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2014 Untitled (Lyndsay Bloom) Directing Director N/A
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2014 High Noon Directing Director N/A
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2014 O, Persecuted Directing Director N/A
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2013 Farther Than the Eye Can See Directing Director N/A
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2013 Home Movies Gaza Directing Director N/A
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2012 Everywhere Was The Same Directing Director N/A
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2011 The Story of Milk and Honey Directing Director 59
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2010 Turkish Delight Directing Director N/A
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2009 We Began by Measuring Distance Directing Director 59
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Writing

2017 Ouroboros Writing Writer 59
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2013 Home Movies Gaza Writing Writer N/A
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2009 We Began by Measuring Distance Writing Writer 59
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Sound

2014 Atlantis Sound Sound Recordist 59
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Camera

2015 Renée’s Room Camera Director of Photography N/A
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2014 Deep Sleep Camera Director of Photography 59
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Crew

2014 Atlantis Crew Thanks 59
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Editing

2017 Ouroboros Editing Editor 59
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2014 Deep Sleep Editing Editor 59
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