Biography
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.
Filmography
all 16
Movies 15
Director 11
Writer 5
TV Shows 1
MOBY DICK; or, The Whale (2022)
Tiger Strike Red (2022)
Tender Point Ruin (2021)
Sisters with Transistors (2021)
Peculiar Contrast, Perfect Light (2021)
Little Birds (2020)
Not Really in Reality Reality TV (2018)
Fatima al Qadiri: Spiral ft. Bobo Secret (2017)
Wayuu Creation Myth (2017)
The Magical State (2017)
Black Friday (2016)
The Future Was Desert (Part II) (2016)
A Whale Is A Whale Is A Whale (2014)
Le Radeau de la Méduse
Mirror Cookie
The Future Was Desert
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