Sophia Al-Maria Movies
- 2021
Peculiar Contrast, Perfect Light
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My Blackest self, whose whitest death, is luxury. I am no stranger anymore. The world is love to me.
- 1970
Mirror Cookie
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Al-Maria’s Mirror Cookie installation presents an intentionally disjointed monologue that references a self-help technique known as...
- 1970
Le Radeau de la Méduse
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- 2016
Black Friday
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Black Friday presents a hypnotic rendering of two large shopping malls in Doha that become a sacred sanctuary where the two protagonists, the artist...
- 2021
Tender Point Ruin
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An exquisite corpse, the film extends the artist’s interests in the writings of Etel Adnan, the coming present and the personal as political.
- 2022
Tiger Strike Red
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Remixing the collections of London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, Tiger Strike Red is an oneiric jaunt through an alternative art history that...
- 2018
Not Really in Reality Reality TV
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A surreal interview with Chinese-American actress Bai Ling, cast as a 'love goddess' and speaking on the subject of vengefulness.
- 2017
The Magical State
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A Wayuu woman is possessed by a 40 million-year-old oil demon.
- 2020
Beast Type Song
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Etel Adnan's poem 'The Arab Apocalypse' from 1989 describes a future world in a state of emergency. The poem is the suggestive science fiction...
- 2017
Wayuu Creation Myth
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A companion piece to The Magical State, Ziruma reveals the bloody Wayuu cosmogony.
- 2017
Fatima al Qadiri: Spiral ft. Bobo Secret
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A belly dance-off mixing femme and masc in a sensual homage to the form.
- 2017
Mothership
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A baby bird moves in the sand, watched by a mysterious stranger,
- 2018
D0vedown
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Though only the recipient can fully decode this video love letter, it is general enough to be read as a universal love poem.
- 2014
A Whale Is A Whale Is A Whale
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A tribute to the disappearing Arabian humpback whale population, tracing its near extinction as a consequence of the high-speed development of the...
- 2016
The Future Was Desert (Part II)
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'Deserts possess a particular magic, since they have exhausted their own futures, and are thus free of time.' - J.G. Ballard
- 2013
Slaughter
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Rushes of the 2012 Eid al-Adha slaughter shot for the climax of the abandoned feature film Beretta.
- 1970
The Future Was Desert
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‘Deserts possess a particular magic, since they have exhausted their own futures, and are thus free of time.’ – J.G. Ballard