Usama Alshaibi Movies

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

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....

"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...

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

Experimental short about the Qawliya gypsies in Iraq.

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

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

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

A devotion to beauty, aching and isolation.

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

A bandaged woman writhes naked on a bed.

Traditional slaughter of an animal for Islamic holiday Eid.

A short film by Usama Alshaibi

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

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

Alshaibi's father playing Iraqi folk music.

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

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

An experimental film focusing on the writhing form of Katinka.

Chicago, May 2008