Usama Alshaibi Filmes

Baghdad, Iowa is the mask, the shadow and the night stars that sing the sorrow song of death. You might be dreaming, so don't wake up until you...

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

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

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....

A short film by Usama Alshaibi

A devotion to beauty, aching and isolation.

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

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

A bandaged woman writhes naked on a bed.

Alshaibi's father playing Iraqi folk music.

Chicago 2010

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....

Experimental short about the Qawliya gypsies in Iraq.

"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...

Close-up of a woman crying.

In Nice Bombs filmmaker Usama Alshaibi returns to Baghdad to reunite with his family after nearly 24 years. This documentary navigates through his...

Zeek Sheck Rules The Cloud People (But Not For Long) - Speech Joe

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

An experimental film focusing on the writhing form of Katinka.

Traditional slaughter of an animal for Islamic holiday Eid.