Sophia Al-Maria Trailers
Tender Point Ruin Trailer
Sophia Al Maria is an artist, writer and filmmaker. She studied comparative literature at the American University in Cairo, and aural and visual cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. For the past few years, she has been carrying out research around the concept of Gulf Futurism. Her primary interests are around the isolation of individuals via technology and reactionary Islam, the corrosive elements of consumerism and industry, and the erasure of history and the blinding approach of a future no one is ready for. She explores these ideas with certain guidebooks and ideas including, but not limited to, Zizek’s The Desert of the Unreal, As-Sufi’s Islamic Book of the Dead, as well as imagery from Islamic eschatology, post humanism and the global mythos of Science Fiction.
Most Popular Sophia Al-Maria Trailers
Total trailers found: 15
21 January 2021
My Blackest self, whose whitest death, is luxury. I am no stranger anymore. The world is love to me.
01 January 2017
A Wayuu woman is possessed by a 40 million-year-old oil demon.
14 July 2016
Black Friday presents a hypnotic rendering of two large shopping malls in Doha that become a sacred sanctuary where the two protagonists, the artist and her sister, both wearing abayas, walk up and down endless escalators, in a sort of relentless procession inside immense empty and opulent marble-clad spaces.
10 September 2021
An exquisite corpse, the film extends the artist’s interests in the writings of Etel Adnan, the coming present and the personal as political.
01 January 2016
'Deserts possess a particular magic, since they have exhausted their own futures, and are thus free of time.
01 January 2014
A tribute to the disappearing Arabian humpback whale population, tracing its near extinction as a consequence of the high-speed development of the Persian Gulf.
07 November 2017
A baby bird moves in the sand, watched by a mysterious stranger,
01 January 2017
A companion piece to The Magical State, Ziruma reveals the bloody Wayuu cosmogony.
01 January 2013
Rushes of the 2012 Eid al-Adha slaughter shot for the climax of the abandoned feature film Beretta.
01 January 2018
A surreal interview with Chinese-American actress Bai Ling, cast as a 'love goddess' and speaking on the subject of vengefulness.
20 November 2017
A belly dance-off mixing femme and masc in a sensual homage to the form.
22 September 2018
Though only the recipient can fully decode this video love letter, it is general enough to be read as a universal love poem.
27 November 2022
An adaptation of Moby Dick as a silent film and theatre piece with a postcolonial and queer reading that highlights its marginal characters.
18 March 2020
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 backdrop of Sophia Al-Maria's performative video work 'Beast Type Song', which is set in the abandoned space that previously housed Saint Martin's School of Art in London.
14 September 2022
Remixing the collections of London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, Tiger Strike Red is an oneiric jaunt through an alternative art history that finds playful linkages between classical marble sculpture, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, representations of Judith’s beheading of Holofernes, AI art, and an 18th-century South Indian automaton depicting a tiger mauling a British colonial soldier.
