Description
O, Persecuted turns the act of restoring Kassem Hawal’s 1974 Palestinian Militant film Our Small Houses into a performance possible only through film. One that involves speed, bodies, and the movement of the past into a future that collides ideology with escapism.
About the director: Basma Alsharif was born in 1983 (Kuwait). She received an MFA from the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois, Chicago in 2007 and has been working in Cairo, Beirut, and Amman since then. She is a visual artist using moving and still images, sound, and language, to explore the anonymous individual in relation to political history and collective memory. Her work has been shown in exhibitions and film festivals internationally and has received many awards.