2014 | United States | Documentary

Basma Alsharif: An Interview

  • English - 43 mins
  • Director | Video Data Bank
  • Writer | -
  • Producer | -

STATUS: Released

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In this interview, Basma Alsharif (b.1983) examines the multiple ways in which her work engages with the notion of nomadism. Beginning with a discussion of how she initially came to video through photography, Alsharif describes how this transformation of her practice required a translation of artistic sensibilities. The artist feels this displacement between media gave her the tools to critically engage with the displacement she felt as a Palestinian-American. In her work Alsharif manifests this idea by experimenting with different modes of communication and by using a variety of technical manipulations to complicate the seamlessness of video’s temporal narrative.

Interview Artist Profile Nomadism Visual Arts Palestine Displacement Contemporary Art Filmmaker
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