Usama Alshaibi Movies

Close-up of a woman crying.

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

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

Alshaibi's father playing Iraqi folk music.

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

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 experimental film focusing on the writhing form of Katinka.

In Nice Bombs filmmaker Usama Alshaibi returns to Baghdad to reunite with his family after nearly 24 years. This documentary navigates through his...

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

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

Chicago 2010

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...

Chicago, 2008.

A bandaged woman writhes naked on a bed.

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

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

A cut up exploration in film-kink and video-noise fetish for the children of the millennium.

Traditional slaughter of an animal for Islamic holiday Eid.