Usama Alshaibi Movies
- 2006
Eid Sacrifice
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Traditional slaughter of an animal for Islamic holiday Eid.
- 2006
Qawliya Dance
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Experimental short about the Qawliya gypsies in Iraq.
- 2007
Signal Cross Over
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"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...
- 2016
Baghdad, Iowa
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Baghdad, Iowa is the mask, the shadow and the night stars that sing the sorrow song of death. You might be dreaming, so don't wake up until you...
- 2001
Ass
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Ass is a vivisection that attacks the optic nerves and creates a conflict within the body.
- 2001
Slaughtered Pigtails
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A woman is chased across a field by an unseen assailant.
- 2008
Gash
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An experimental film focusing on the writhing form of Katinka.
- 2004
Self-Contained
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A woman lying on a hardwood floor covered in plastic wrap.
- 2008
Looking at Clouds
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Chicago, 2008.
- 2008
Patient
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A bandaged woman writhes naked on a bed.
- 2008
My Second Painting
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Chicago, May 2008
- 1999
Dance Habibi Dance
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Mythological creatures parade and swim in an acid Greek mythos. A broadcast from beyond, with lurid flesh and Arabesque disco.
- 2016
The Evil and the Good Fairy
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"This was made with my daughter Muneera. She wrote it and stars in it. Using black and white reversal super-8mm film."
- 2004
Bombshell: Iraqi Secret Videos and Artifacts from a Fallen Regime
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This video is compiled from several appropriated clips from VCD's(Video Compact Discs) that are sold in Baghdad.Iraqi-American filmmaker Usama...
- 2007
Baba Boom Boom
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Alshaibi's father playing Iraqi folk music.
- 2010
My Fourth Painting
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Chicago 2010
- 2000
Muffin
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An eerily stylized deconstruction of exploitation and violence in life and cinema.
- 2009
My Third Painting
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Here’s the literal definition of “art cinema”: Usama Alshaibi’s short piece ‘My Third Painting,’ which plays like...
- 2007
Dream of Samarra
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Super 8 video shot by Alshaibi's brother in Samarra.
- 2008
Spoiled
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Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.