Films by Basma Alsharif
✦ We Began By Measuring Distance, 19', 2009
✦ Home Movies Gaza, 24', 2013
✦ O, Persecuted, 11', 2014
Basma Alsharif’s films resonate strongly with the exhibition’s focus on Archives in Revolt and Insurgent Communities. Through layered sound, found footage, and fragmented narrative, she approaches Palestine not as a fixed historical record but as a living archive shaped by displacement, memory, and political struggle. Works such as We Began by Measuring Distance and O, Persecuted engage with archival material and the circulation of images, while Home Movies Gazasituates political history within everyday domestic life. Paired with the collective text by Cráter Invertido/taller XD: Palestine Is Near from the exhibition’s reader at The Migros Museum, the programme invites reflection on proximity and solidarity, asking how struggles archived elsewhere resonate from our own geographies today.
✦ Palestine Is Near, Cráter Invertido/taller XD, 2025.
This text is the result of a collective discussion of ideas, arguments, and reflections, to understand how we, from our own territories and geographies, can resonate with the struggle for life that the Palestinians are carrying out there.
The Third Cinema Club (formerly Film/Book Club) is a series of screenings and collective readings that reimagines the radical legacy of “the third,” envisioned as a revolutionary, anti-colonial cinema positioned outside both commercial and individualistic (auteurist) art film. Conceived as a feminist and diasporic space of study, witnessing, and imagination, the series moves fluidly between film and text, cultivating practices of solidarity, critical thought, and collective world-making.
The Canopy Sessions are a series of talks with actors from art, culture, science, and activism in the Shamiana meeting space, an open textile structure in the exhibition Disobedience Archive (Canopy for Broken Time) – In Dialogue with Raqs Media Collective.
The screening is presented in collaboration with CINE Löwenbräukunst.
✦ 18. March 2026, 16:00–18:00
✦ Location: Migros Museum, Löwenbräukunst, Limmatstrasse 270, 8005 Zürich.
