Basma Alsharif
Directing
Born January 1, 1983 · Kuwait
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.
Directed (18)
Morning Circle
2025
It's So Beautiful Here
2025
Capital
2022
Ouroboros
2017
Trompe l’oeil
2016
Renée’s Room
2015
A Field Guide to the Ferns
2015
O, Persecuted
2014
Deep Sleep
2014
High Noon
2014
Untitled (Lyndsay Bloom)
2014
Farther Than the Eye Can See
2013
Home Movies Gaza
2013
Everywhere Was The Same
2012
The Story of Milk and Honey
2011
Turkish Delight
2010
We Began by Measuring Distance
2009
Old Masters
