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Basma Alsharif: Drawing a line through the Ouroboros

Director in Person
Free Admission

Basma Alsharif presents an evening of texts, sounds, and images as references and influences for her first feature-length film Ouroboros, which screens the following evening. The event includes excerpts from Pier Paolo Pasolini's documentary Location Hunting in Palestine, a brief reading from Carlo Levi’s Christ Stopped at Eboli, and sounds by musician Yann Gourdon. Also included is Alsharif's short film Home Movies Gaza (2013, 24 min), in which she captures the private and public spheres of the Gaza Strip.

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