Usama Alshaibi Movies

Experimental short made from a family recording.

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

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

Close-up of a woman crying.

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

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

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....

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

A young artist in a dark dorm room takes anxieties out of their brain and into their hands.

Chicago 2010

"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.

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

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

Chicago, 2008.

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

Experimental short about the Qawliya gypsies in Iraq.

An experimental film focusing on the writhing form of Katinka.

Chicago, May 2008

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.