After Hours Film School is a workshop series devoted to new currents in cinematic practice. The series invites moving-image makers to share new work or work-in-progress and engage with participants in a seminar-style discussion around methodology, production, and key questions animating their work. After Hours is organized by Kirsten Gill and Rachel Valinsky.
In this workshop, artist and filmmaker Basma al-Sharif reflects on recent and earlier work, tracing the development of guiding questions and methodologies over time. Centered on themes of invisible violence, dehumanization, and displacement, the workshop considers how domestic and civic architectures encode both historical legacies and present conditions. Al-Sharif examines how built environments register power, exclusion, and belonging, and how Western cultural frameworks often fail to recognize immigrants as integral to the societies they inhabit.
