Origin: Gaza | Documentary | Director: Basma Alsharif | 23 minutes

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Home movies Gaza

Basma Alsharif 2013 docu 23 min.

Despite a decade's absence, the Gaza Strip is one of the few places that
video artist Basma Alsharif feels she can call home. Home Movies Gaza
initially gives the impression of a travelogue, relaying the quotidian
sights and sounds of a long overdue visit home. But this comfortable tone
soon gives way to a more surreal and dystopian aesthetic as the artist
finds the notional space of home and domesticity complicated, alienating,
and altogether impossible to disentangle from its political woes.

Trailer: https://www.vdb.org/titles/home-movies-gaza

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