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Thematic programmes - Looking for Homeland
Blending ambiguous but evocative images of a natural world mediated by culture, documentary footage of
violence in Palestine, and staged performances, Alsharif complicates the
essentialist image of the Middle East in the popular imagination of the West. We Began by Measuring Distance explores
an ultimate disenchantment with facts when the visual fails to communicate the
tragic.
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Original Title:
We Began By Measuring Distance -
Country:
Palestine, Egypt -
Year:
2009 - 19 min
Director
Basma Alsharif
Basma Alsharif was born in Kuwait, in 1983, to two Palestinian parents, and she’s an artist and director whose work focuses on
transmitting the history of Palestine. Since finishing her masters in Fine Arts
at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2007, she developed her art in many
cities, linking her work to the historical and natural changes between
different geopolitical environments. She exhibited her installations and
photography throughout the world, and deserved awards such as the Marion
MacMahon award at Images and the Marcelino Botin Visual Arts grant. Currently,
Alsharif is based in Los Angeles.