Usama Alshaibi Movies

A bandaged woman writhes naked on a bed.

Experimental short made from a family recording.

Traditional slaughter of an animal for Islamic holiday Eid.

Chicago, 2008.

"Hold My Scissors from Chicago's most prolific underground filmmaker, Usama Alshaibi, combines images of blood, cannibalism, witches, and demons,...

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

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

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....

An adventure in pornographic surrealism.

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

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

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

A young Muslim Dominatrix in the midst of a spiritual crisis.

Chicago, May 2008

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....

Zeek Sheck Rules The Cloud People (But Not For Long) - Speech Joe

Alshaibi's father playing Iraqi folk music.

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

Rhythm and repetition plays an important role in the animated film Allahu Akbar by Usama Alshaibi. With this film, Alshaibi questions the...

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