Usama Alshaibi Trailers
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Usama Alshaibi is a director, writer and producer. He has spent his formative years living between the United States and the Middle East. His films have received grants from the Creative Capital Foundation, the Playboy Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and others. His work in both narrative and documentary film has screened all over the world. His documentary films have premiered on the Sundance Channel and PBS. Feature articles have been written about his work in such places as the Chicago Tribune, Time Out, Punk Planet and Variety. His latest documentary, American Arab, had a world premiere at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam and has secured domestic and international distribution. Usama Alshaibi has directed 16 feature and short films. He and his creative partner Kristie Alshaibi run and operate Artvamp, which produces the majority of their films.
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01 January 2003
Rhythm and repetition plays an important role in the animated film Allahu Akbar by Usama Alshaibi. With this film, Alshaibi questions the confrontation between tradition and modernity by drawing inspiration from geometric motives of Islamic art.
19 August 2020
A collection of 190-second short films created in response to COVID-19, commissioned by filmmakers Usama Alshaibi and Adam Sekuler.
01 January 2008
Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.
17 August 2006
In Nice Bombs filmmaker Usama Alshaibi returns to Baghdad to reunite with his family after nearly 24 years.
01 January 2004
A woman lying on a hardwood floor covered in plastic wrap.
29 August 2002
Formally, an intriguing depiction of video as forward motion, or as technology of road movies and dreams.
01 January 2008
Chicago, 2008.
01 January 2007
"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 via a ritualized live cremation process.
01 May 2008
An experimental film focusing on the writhing form of Katinka.
20 November 2004
This video is compiled from several appropriated clips from VCD's(Video Compact Discs) that are sold in Baghdad.
06 April 2009
Here’s the literal definition of “art cinema”: Usama Alshaibi’s short piece ‘My Third Painting,’ which plays like a cross between Jackson Pollock, traditional glass plane animation, and a phone call from your drug dealer.
01 January 2010
Chicago 2010
01 March 2007
Super 8 video shot by Alshaibi's brother in Samarra.
01 January 2000
An eerily stylized deconstruction of exploitation and violence in life and cinema.
01 January 2007
Alshaibi's father playing Iraqi folk music.
01 January 2008
Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.
01 January 2016
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 arrive.
01 May 2008
Chicago, May 2008
01 January 2008
A bandaged woman writhes naked on a bed.
22 November 2020
A devotion to beauty, aching and isolation.
01 October 1999
Mythological creatures parade and swim in an acid Greek mythos. A broadcast from beyond, with lurid flesh and Arabesque disco.
01 January 2000
Close-up of a woman crying.
01 January 2000
A cut up exploration in film-kink and video-noise fetish for the children of the millennium.
01 January 2001
A woman is chased across a field by an unseen assailant.
20 April 2010
Nine short experimental films of transgressive cinema.
01 January 2003
What is preventing these people from completing video penetration?
21 February 2016
"This was made with my daughter Muneera. She wrote it and stars in it. Using black and white reversal super-8mm film.
01 January 2006
Experimental short about the Qawliya gypsies in Iraq.
01 January 2008
Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.
26 April 2023
A psychedelic portrait of the founding theorist of Christianity, Paul the Apostle. His life, ideology and influence are reconstructed by piecing together 16mm footage, cassettes, animation, and Catholic liturgical music.
02 June 2004
"Hold My Scissors from Chicago's most prolific underground filmmaker, Usama Alshaibi, combines images of blood, cannibalism, witches, and demons, shot with a frenetic urgency that functions to heighten the dreamlike soundtrack.
27 February 2009
Experimental short made from a family recording.
01 January 2006
Traditional slaughter of an animal for Islamic holiday Eid.
22 November 2013
Iraqi-American filmmaker Usama Alshaibi shares his own story of experiencing racism in post-9/11 America.
01 January 2001
Ass is a vivisection that attacks the optic nerves and creates a conflict within the body.
02 June 2021
A young artist in a dark dorm room takes anxieties out of their brain and into their hands.
01 January 2003
Muhammad Zeromski, raised in Iraq and Poland, returns to the U.S. after being away for almost a year.
01 January 2005
A short film by Usama Alshaibi
20 October 2011
A young Muslim Dominatrix in the midst of a spiritual crisis.
01 January 1998
Zeek Sheck Rules The Cloud People (But Not For Long) - Speech Joe
15 April 2026
A road trip to a Ziggurat in Colorado sparks connection between Arabs in the state. Filmmaker, Usama Alshaibi, embarks on a journey to the Crestone Ziggurat.
01 January 2004
An adventure in pornographic surrealism.
10 January 2003
Study of a schizophrenic girl in her own language.
