Usama Alshaibi Movies

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 devotion to beauty, aching and isolation.

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

Close-up of a woman crying.

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

Alshaibi's father playing Iraqi folk music.

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

Usama Alshaibi-directed short 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....

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

Chicago, 2008.

An experimental film focusing on the writhing form of Katinka.

Chicago, May 2008

"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...

A bandaged woman writhes naked on a bed.

Chicago 2010

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.

Traditional slaughter of an animal for Islamic holiday Eid.