Usama Alshaibi Filmes

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

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

An adventure in pornographic surrealism.

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

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....

Traditional slaughter of an animal for Islamic holiday Eid.

Formally, an intriguing depiction of video as forward motion, or as technology of road movies and dreams. Alshaibi intercuts footage of a...

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

A devotion to beauty, aching and isolation.

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

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

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

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

Chicago, 2008.

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

A short film by Usama Alshaibi

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

An experimental film focusing on the writhing form of Katinka.

Alshaibi's father playing Iraqi folk music.