Usama Alshaibi Movies

Rhythm and repetition plays an important role in the animated film Allahu Akbar by Usama Alshaibi. With this film, Alshaibi questions the...

Study of a schizophrenic girl in her own language.

A psychedelic portrait of the founding theorist of Christianity, Paul the Apostle. His life, ideology and influence are reconstructed by piecing...

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

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

Chicago, 2008.

Ass is a vivisection that attacks the optic nerves and creates a conflict within the body.

A woman is chased across a field by an unseen assailant.

"This was made with my daughter Muneera. She wrote it and stars in it. Using black and white reversal super-8mm film."

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

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....

Chicago 2010

A collection of 190-second short films created in response to COVID-19, commissioned by filmmakers Usama Alshaibi and Adam Sekuler.

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

This video is compiled from several appropriated clips from VCD's(Video Compact Discs) that are sold in Baghdad.Iraqi-American filmmaker Usama...

Alshaibi's father playing Iraqi folk music.

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

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....

Here’s the literal definition of “art cinema”: Usama Alshaibi’s short piece ‘My Third Painting,’ which plays like...

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