Basma Alsharif Videoworks: Volume 1
Basma Alsharif
Collection: Compilations , Single Artist Compilations
Tags: Documentary, Family, History, Landscape, Language, Middle East, Migration, Politics, Videoworks, War
The work of Basma Alsharif is a tribute and testament to diasporic cultures, in this case Palestinian, drifting from the Gaza Strip to Egypt, France to the United States. Alsharif's work isn't so much about Palestine as it is about being without Palestine; the work speaks to a collective struggle of removal from place, and distance from home. From Everywhere was the Same (2007) to The Story of Milk and Honey (2011), Basma Alsharif: Videoworks Volume 1 evokes a sense of dissonance between place, subject, story, and camera.
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In an empty room, a slideshow projection of abandoned places plays alongside the narrative of two girls who find themselves on the shores of a pre-apocalyptic paradise. Told through subtitle text…
Collections: Single TitlesTags: Crime or Violence, Mental Landscape
Long still frames, text, language, and sound are weaved together to unfold the narrative of an anonymous group who fill their time by measuring distance. Innocent measurements transition into…
Collections: Single TitlesTags: History, Mental Landscape, Politics
Super 8mm film transferred to digital video. Installation composed of footage from three separate sequences that interweave frame by frame. Shot in the interiors of empty homes in Amman, Jordan.…
Collections: Single TitlesTags: Food
The Story of Milk and Honey is a short experimental video belonging to a larger project, which includes photographs, drawings and text, detailing an un-named individual’s failure to write a love…
Collections: Single TitlesTags: History, Literature, Love, Memory