Usama Alshaibi Movies

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

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

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

Experimental short made from a family recording.

Experimental short about the Qawliya gypsies in Iraq.

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

Chicago 2010

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

Traditional slaughter of an animal for Islamic holiday Eid.

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

A short film by Usama Alshaibi

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

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

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

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...

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