Usama Alshaibi Movies

An experimental film focusing on the writhing form of Katinka.

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

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

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

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

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

Alshaibi's father playing Iraqi folk music.

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

A bandaged woman writhes naked on a bed.

A short film by Usama Alshaibi

Chicago, 2008.

Experimental short about the Qawliya gypsies in Iraq.

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

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 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...

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,...

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