Usama Alshaibi Movies

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

A short experimental film about processing internal stress outwardly through the creative process.

Iraqi-American filmmaker Usama Alshaibi shares his own story of experiencing racism in post-9/11 America. Showcasing the diversity of Arabs living in...

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

Chicago 2010

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

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

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

Rhythm and repetition plays an important role in the animated film Allahu Akbar by Usama Alshaibi. With this film, Alshaibi questions the...

"Hold My Scissors from Chicago's most prolific underground filmmaker, Usama Alshaibi, combines images of blood, cannibalism, witches, and demons,...

Experimental short made from a family recording.

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

A devotion to beauty, aching and isolation.

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...

Chicago, 2008.

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

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

A bandaged woman writhes naked on a bed.