Usama Alshaibi Movies

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

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

A devotion to beauty, aching and isolation.

"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...

Close-up of a woman crying.

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

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

Chicago, May 2008

Chicago 2010

Baghdad, Iowa is the mask, the shadow and the night stars that sing the sorrow song of death. You might be dreaming, so don't wake up until you...

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

Chicago, 2008.

Mythological creatures parade and swim in an acid Greek mythos. A broadcast from beyond, with lurid flesh and Arabesque disco.

Alshaibi's father playing Iraqi folk music.

A bandaged woman writhes naked on a bed.

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

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

Experimental short made from a family recording.

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,...