Sophia Al-Maria
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.
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The Magical State
DirectorNot Really in Reality Reality TV
DirectorThe Future Was Desert (Part II)
DirectorFatima al Qadiri: Spiral ft. Bobo Secret
DirectorWayuu Creation Myth
DirectorThe Future Was Desert
DirectorBeast Type Song
DirectorPeculiar Contrast, Perfect Light
WriterBlack Friday
DirectorTender Point Ruin
DirectorTiger Strike Red
DirectorA Whale Is A Whale Is A Whale
DirectorMirror Cookie
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