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Sophia Al Maria is an artist, writer and filmmaker. She studied comparative literature at the American University in Cairo, and aural and visual cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. For the past few years, she has been carrying out research around the concept of Gulf Futurism. Her primary interests are around the isolation of individuals via technology and reactionary Islam, the corrosive elements of consumerism and industry, and the erasure of history and the blinding approach of a future no one is ready for. She explores these ideas with certain guidebooks and ideas including, but not limited to, Zizek’s The Desert of the Unreal, As-Sufi’s Islamic Book of the Dead, as well as imagery from Islamic eschatology, post humanism and the global mythos of Science Fiction.

Tiger Strike Red
2022

Tender Point Ruin
2021

Beast Type Song
2020
D0vedown
2018

Not Really in Reality Reality TV
2018

Fatima al Qadiri: Spiral ft. Bobo Secret
2017
Mothership
2017

The Magical State
2017

Wayuu Creation Myth
2017

Black Friday
2016

The Future Was Desert (Part II)
2016

A Whale Is A Whale Is A Whale
2014
Slaughter
2013

Mirror Cookie

The Future Was Desert