Basia Napora is a Polish film director, writer and video artist based in Berlin.
She studied Media Arts with an emphasis on film directing, writing, media theory and audiovisual techniques at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM), visual communication at the Peter Behrens School of Arts and art history at the University of Wrocław. She has participated in diverse film workshops e.g. Robert Marchand, Marcel Lozinski, Andrzej Jaroszewicz.
Since 2012 she has been working with lens-based media and narrative formats, which find synthesis in her recent film work. In 2019, together with Oskar Brummel, she made the short film Love Forgives Everything. ENGRAM is her first feature film.
In the theater context, she worked as a trainee director on Die Dreigroschenoper directed by Andreas Kriegenburg at Shauspielhaus Düsseldorf.
Apart from cinematic and narrative formats, she works for numerous video productions, art documentation, music videos and live camera projects.