Usama Alshaibi Movies

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

A bandaged woman writhes naked on a bed.

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.

Close-up of a woman crying.

Experimental short made from a family recording.

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

Chicago 2010

"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.

An experimental film focusing on the writhing form of Katinka.

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

Traditional slaughter of an animal for Islamic holiday Eid.

Chicago, 2008.

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

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

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

"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.