OUROBOROS - BASMA ALSHARIF
EXPERIMENTAL
France, Palestine, Belgium, Qatar
2017 | 77' | Color | 16mm, HD | ov. Italian/English/Chinook | st. English
OUROBOROS IS AN HOMAGE TO GAZA, BASED ON THE ETERNAL RETURN
Ouroboros is acclaimed visual artist Basma Alsharif's first feature film.
This film follows a man through five different landscapes upending mass-mediated representation of trauma.
A journey outside of time, marking the end as the beginning, exploring the subject of the eternal return and how we move forward when all is lost.
OUROBOROS | B.Alsharif | 2017
OUROBOROS | B.Alsharif | 2017
OUROBOROS | B.Alsharif | 2017
OUROBOROS | B.Alsharif | 2017
OUROBOROS | B.Alsharif | 2017
OUROBOROS | B.Alsharif | 2017
OUROBOROS | B.Alsharif | 2017
DIRECTOR/EDITING Basma Alsharif
CINEMATOGRAPHY Ben Russell
SOUND RECORDING Federico Chiari
SOUND MIX Matthieu Deniau
ORIGINAL MUSIQUE Yann Gourdon |
Bunny People
WITH Diego Marcon
Jessica Bellinger, Neemah Abu Ghenas, Coleman Collins, Bo Gallerito, Claire de Pimodan, Yann Gourdon, Joseph Veldez, Laurent Strom-Berg
VOICE OVER Sky Hopinka
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Ida.Ida (France) | Momento! (France) |
Idioms Film (Palestine) | Luna Blue Film (Belgique) | Doha Film Institute (Qatar) | Galerie Imane Farès (France)
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
Emilie Dudognon, Eyal Sivan,
Mohanad Yaqubi, Serge Kestemont
LINE PRODUCER
Hortense Quitard
FUNDING SUPPORT
CNAP Image/Mouvement | AFAC | DFI | Future Logic | FIDLab 2016 | Tax Shelter Belgique
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION
DISTRIBUTION
2017
Whitney Biennial (NYC, USA)
Locarno Festival (Switzerland))
Toronto Palestine Film Festival (Canada)
BFI London Film Festival (UK)
Milano Film Festival (Italy)
Underdox (Munich, Germany)
Day of Cinema (Ramallah, Palestine)
RIDM (Montreal, Canada)
Valdivia (Chili)
AFAC (Berut, Lebanon)
Transcinema (Lima, Peru)
2018
Glasgow Film Festival (UK)
Locarno in Los Angeles (USA)
FESTIVALS
Cinema Scope 71 | Summer 2017
Mousse Magazine 59 | Summer 2017
Electronic Intifada | July 2017
MUBI | August 2017
Senses of Cinema | December 2017
The Brooklyn Rail | April 2018
