Usama Alshaibi Movies

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

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

Alshaibi's father playing Iraqi folk music.

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

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

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

Close-up of a woman crying.

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

Chicago, May 2008

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

Traditional slaughter of an animal for Islamic holiday Eid.

Chicago, 2008.

Experimental short about the Qawliya gypsies in Iraq.

An experimental film focusing on the writhing form of Katinka.

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...

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

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