Usama Alshaibi Movies

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....

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...

Chicago, 2008.

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

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

Alshaibi's father playing Iraqi folk music.

Chicago, May 2008

Experimental short about the Qawliya gypsies in Iraq.

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

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

A bandaged woman writhes naked on a bed.

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

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

A short film by Usama Alshaibi

An experimental film focusing on the writhing form of Katinka.

Traditional slaughter of an animal for Islamic holiday Eid.

Chicago 2010

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

Close-up of a woman crying.

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.