Sophia Al-Maria Movies

My Blackest self, whose whitest death, is luxury. I am no stranger anymore. The world is love to me.

Al-Maria’s Mirror Cookie installation presents an intentionally disjointed monologue that references a self-help technique known as...

An exquisite corpse, the film extends the artist’s interests in the writings of Etel Adnan, the coming present and the personal as political.

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...

Rushes of the 2012 Eid al-Adha slaughter shot for the climax of the abandoned feature film Beretta.

A companion piece to The Magical State, Ziruma reveals the bloody Wayuu cosmogony.

A surreal interview with Chinese-American actress Bai Ling, cast as a 'love goddess' and speaking on the subject of vengefulness.

A baby bird moves in the sand, watched by a mysterious stranger,

Remixing the collections of London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, Tiger Strike Red is an oneiric jaunt through an alternative art history that...

A tribute to the disappearing Arabian humpback whale population, tracing its near extinction as a consequence of the high-speed development of the...

A Wayuu woman is possessed by a 40 million-year-old oil demon.

'Deserts possess a particular magic, since they have exhausted their own futures, and are thus free of time.' - J.G. Ballard

A belly dance-off mixing femme and masc in a sensual homage to the form.

Black Friday presents a hypnotic rendering of two large shopping malls in Doha that become a sacred sanctuary where the two protagonists, the artist...

Though only the recipient can fully decode this video love letter, it is general enough to be read as a universal love poem.

‘Deserts possess a particular magic, since they have exhausted their own futures, and are thus free of time.’ – J.G. Ballard