Usama Alshaibi Movies

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

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

An adventure in pornographic surrealism.

A short film by Usama Alshaibi

Close-up of a woman crying.

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

An experimental film focusing on the writhing form of Katinka.

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

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

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

A bandaged woman writhes naked on a bed.

Chicago 2010

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...

Chicago, 2008.

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.