Usama Alshaibi Movies

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

An adventure in pornographic surrealism.

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

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

Experimental short about the Qawliya gypsies in Iraq.

A bandaged woman writhes naked on a bed.

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

Experimental short made from a family recording.

Traditional slaughter of an animal for Islamic holiday Eid.

Chicago, 2008.

Chicago, May 2008

Chicago 2010

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

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....

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

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

"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...

Alshaibi's father playing Iraqi folk music.

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