Usama Alshaibi Movies
- 2003
Muhammad and Jane
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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....
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- 2007
Baba Boom Boom
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Alshaibi's father playing Iraqi folk music.
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- 2000
Muffin
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An eerily stylized deconstruction of exploitation and violence in life and cinema.
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- 2020
The Desire
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A devotion to beauty, aching and isolation.
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- 2004
Bombshell: Iraqi Secret Videos and Artifacts from a Fallen Regime
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This video is compiled from several appropriated clips from VCD's(Video Compact Discs) that are sold in Baghdad.Iraqi-American filmmaker Usama...
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- 2000
Crying
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Close-up of a woman crying.
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- 1970
Boy from War
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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....
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- 2008
Looking at Clouds
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Chicago, 2008.
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- 2005
Traumata
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A short film by Usama Alshaibi
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- 2006
Nice Bombs
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In Nice Bombs filmmaker Usama Alshaibi returns to Baghdad to reunite with his family after nearly 24 years. This documentary navigates through his...
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- 2008
Patient
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A bandaged woman writhes naked on a bed.
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- 2008
Organ Molly
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Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.
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- 2009
My Mother Paused By My Father
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Experimental short made from a family recording.
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- 2007
Dream of Samarra
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Super 8 video shot by Alshaibi's brother in Samarra.
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- 2004
Convulsion Expulsion
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An adventure in pornographic surrealism.
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- 2002
Soak
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Formally, an intriguing depiction of video as forward motion, or as technology of road movies and dreams. Alshaibi intercuts footage of a...
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- 2010
My Fourth Painting
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Chicago 2010
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- 2008
My Second Painting
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Chicago, May 2008
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- 2008
Runaway
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Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.
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- 2008
Gash
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An experimental film focusing on the writhing form of Katinka.
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