Basma Alsharif
Directing
- Born
- January 1, 1983 (age 43) · 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.
Known for
Behind the camera19
- 2025Morning Circle Director
- 2025Old Masters Director
- 2025It's So Beautiful Here Director
- 2022Capital Director
- 2017Ouroboros Director, Editor, Writer
- 2016Trompe l’oeil Director
- 2015Renée’s Room Director, Director of Photography
- 2015A Field Guide to the Ferns Director
- 2014Atlantis Sound Recordist
- 2014O, Persecuted