Usama Alshaibi Movies

Close-up of a woman crying.

Experimental short about the Qawliya gypsies in Iraq.

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

A bandaged woman writhes naked on a bed.

A woman is chased across a field by an unseen assailant.

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

Ass is a vivisection that attacks the optic nerves and creates a conflict within the body.

Chicago 2010

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....

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

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...

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

Alshaibi's father playing Iraqi folk music.

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...

Chicago, 2008.

A collection of 190-second short films created in response to COVID-19, commissioned by filmmakers Usama Alshaibi and Adam Sekuler.