Usama Alshaibi Movies

Alshaibi's father playing Iraqi folk music.

Chicago, 2008.

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

Experimental short about the Qawliya gypsies in Iraq.

Chicago 2010

Chicago, May 2008

An experimental film focusing on the writhing form of Katinka.

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

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

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

A short film by Usama Alshaibi

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

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

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.

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....