Usama Alshaibi Movies

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

An experimental film focusing on the writhing form of Katinka.

A devotion to beauty, aching and isolation.

Study of a schizophrenic girl in her own language.

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

A psychedelic portrait of the founding theorist of Christianity, Paul the Apostle. His life, ideology and influence are reconstructed by piecing...

Alshaibi's father playing Iraqi folk music.

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

Experimental short about the Qawliya gypsies in Iraq.

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....

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

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

Close-up of a woman crying.

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....

A bandaged woman writhes naked on a bed.

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

"This was made with my daughter Muneera. She wrote it and stars in it. Using black and white reversal super-8mm film."

Chicago, May 2008

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

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