Usama Alshaibi Movies

Study of a schizophrenic girl in her own language.

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

Traditional slaughter of an animal for Islamic holiday Eid.

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....

A young artist in a dark dorm room takes anxieties out of their brain and into their hands.

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

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

A psychedelic portrait of the founding theorist of Christianity, Paul the Apostle. His life, ideology and influence are reconstructed by piecing...

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

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

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."

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

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

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

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

Experimental short made from a family recording.

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....

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...