Usama Alshaibi Movies

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....

An adventure in pornographic surrealism.

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

An experimental film focusing on the writhing form of Katinka.

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....

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

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

Chicago, May 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...

Traditional slaughter of an animal for Islamic holiday Eid.

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

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

Experimental short about the Qawliya gypsies in Iraq.

Study of a schizophrenic girl in her own language.

Experimental short made from a family recording.

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

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

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

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

A devotion to beauty, aching and isolation.