Usama Alshaibi Movies

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

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

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

Traditional slaughter of an animal for Islamic holiday Eid.

"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...

An adventure in pornographic surrealism.

Experimental short about the Qawliya gypsies in Iraq.

Chicago, 2008.

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

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

Chicago, May 2008

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

Baghdad, Iowa is the mask, the shadow and the night stars that sing the sorrow song of death. You might be dreaming, so don't wake up until you...

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

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

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.

Chicago 2010

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