Usama Alshaibi Movies

Traditional slaughter of an animal for Islamic holiday Eid.

Experimental short about the Qawliya gypsies in Iraq.

"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...

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...

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.

An experimental film focusing on the writhing form of Katinka.

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

Chicago, 2008.

A bandaged woman writhes naked on a bed.

Chicago, May 2008

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

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

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.

Chicago 2010

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

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.

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.