Usama Alshaibi Movies

Formally, an intriguing depiction of video as forward motion, or as technology of road movies and dreams. Alshaibi intercuts footage of a...

Chicago 2010

In Nice Bombs filmmaker Usama Alshaibi returns to Baghdad to reunite with his family after nearly 24 years. This documentary navigates through his...

An experimental film focusing on the writhing form of Katinka.

Chicago, 2008.

"Signal Cross Over is about assisted love suicide and the noisy transition into the afterlife. He is dead and, with his guidance, she will join him...

Super 8 video shot by Alshaibi's brother in Samarra.

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

A woman lying on a hardwood floor covered in plastic wrap.

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

A bandaged woman writhes naked on a bed.

Zeek Sheck Rules The Cloud People (But Not For Long) - Speech Joe

"Hold My Scissors from Chicago's most prolific underground filmmaker, Usama Alshaibi, combines images of blood, cannibalism, witches, and demons,...

A short film by Usama Alshaibi

A cut up exploration in film-kink and video-noise fetish for the children of the millennium.

Traditional slaughter of an animal for Islamic holiday Eid.

Boy from War is an animated coming-of- age story of a young Arab American punk ricocheting between a war-torn Middle East and 1980s American Midwest....

Experimental short about the Qawliya gypsies in Iraq.

An eerily stylized deconstruction of exploitation and violence in life and cinema.