Director

Basma Alsharif

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Directed movies: 9Directed series: 0All crew credits: 10

TMDB ID: 1364976

IMDb ID: nm5550825

Known for: Directing

Born: January 1, 1983

Age: 43

Place of birth: Kuwait

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2010 - 2025

Years active: 16

Wikidata: Q50331589

Also known as

Basma al-Sharif

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Director (8)Director of Photography (1)Sound Recordist (1)

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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.

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