Farther than the Eye can see

Director: Basma Alsharif    → show biography   ← hide biography

Biography: Basma Alsharif, born in 1983 Kuwait, US citizen of Palestinian origin. Her work has been shown in exhibitions and film festivals internationally including Manifesta 8 (2010), Toronto International Film Festival (2010), the London Palestine Film Festival, London (2010), the 9th Edition of the Sharjah Biennial (2009). She lives and works in Beirut, Lebanon.

Country: Palestine

Year: 2013

Synopsis: FARTHER THAN THE EYE CAN SEE uses the landscape of the Emirates as an anonymous urban space that appears new, uninhabited, and with the vague promise of something better. The voice of a woman recounts her story of the Nakbah (the mass exodus of Palestinians from Jerusalem in 1948). Her story begins with an arrival that progresses towards the departure. The video moves backwards and forwards in time and space, allowing us to experience both at the same time. Rather than undoing the tale, the particular details the narrator chooses to share stand out, and we are asked to trace a fading experience of a place that no longer exists.