Usama Alshaibi Movies

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

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

Close-up of a woman crying.

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

Alshaibi's father playing Iraqi folk music.

Traditional slaughter of an animal for Islamic holiday Eid.

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

A short film by Usama Alshaibi

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

What is preventing these people from completing video penetration?

Chicago, May 2008

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

Chicago, 2008.

An experimental film focusing on the writhing form of Katinka.

Chicago 2010

"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...

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.