Usama Alshaibi Movies

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

A bandaged woman writhes naked on a bed.

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

Alshaibi's father playing Iraqi folk music.

Experimental short about the Qawliya gypsies in Iraq.

Chicago, 2008.

Chicago 2010

Experimental short made from a family recording.

"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...

A devotion to beauty, aching and isolation.

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

Muhammad Zeromski, raised in Iraq and Poland, returns to the U.S. after being away for almost a year. The climate he enters is ominous and confused....

Mythological creatures parade and swim in an acid Greek mythos. A broadcast from beyond, with lurid flesh and Arabesque disco.

What is preventing these people from completing video penetration?

A short film by Usama Alshaibi

An experimental film focusing on the writhing form of Katinka.

Chicago, May 2008

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

Study of a schizophrenic girl in her own language.

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