Usama Alshaibi Movies

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

Study of a schizophrenic girl in her own language.

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

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 2010

Traditional slaughter of an animal for Islamic holiday Eid.

"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...

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....

Chicago, May 2008

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

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

A devotion to beauty, aching and isolation.

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

Experimental short about the Qawliya gypsies in Iraq.

Ass is a vivisection that attacks the optic nerves and creates a conflict within the body.

A short film by Usama Alshaibi

Alshaibi's father playing Iraqi folk music.

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

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