Usama Alshaibi Movies

An experimental film focusing on the writhing form of Katinka.

Study of a schizophrenic girl in her own language.

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

A devotion to beauty, aching and isolation.

Traditional slaughter of an animal for Islamic holiday Eid.

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

Experimental short about the Qawliya gypsies in Iraq.

A collection of 190-second short films created in response to COVID-19, commissioned by filmmakers Usama Alshaibi and Adam Sekuler.

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

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

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....

Alshaibi's father playing Iraqi folk music.

A short film by Usama Alshaibi

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

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

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

Chicago, May 2008

Chicago 2010

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

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