Usama Alshaibi Movies
- 2009
My Third Painting
My Third Painting02009HD
Here’s the literal definition of “art cinema”: Usama Alshaibi’s short piece ‘My Third Painting,’ which plays like...
- 2006
Qawliya Dance
Qawliya Dance02006HD
Experimental short about the Qawliya gypsies in Iraq.
- 2008
Gash
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An experimental film focusing on the writhing form of Katinka.
- 2004
Self-Contained
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A woman lying on a hardwood floor covered in plastic wrap.
- 2007
Dream of Samarra
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Super 8 video shot by Alshaibi's brother in Samarra.
- 2008
Looking at Clouds
Looking at Clouds02008HD
Chicago, 2008.
- 2005
Traumata
Traumata02005HD
A short film by Usama Alshaibi
- 2008
Spoiled
Spoiled02008HD
Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.
- 2002
Soak
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Formally, an intriguing depiction of video as forward motion, or as technology of road movies and dreams. Alshaibi intercuts footage of a...
- 2000
Muffin
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An eerily stylized deconstruction of exploitation and violence in life and cinema.
- 2008
My Second Painting
My Second Painting02008HD
Chicago, May 2008
- 2010
My Fourth Painting
My Fourth Painting02010HD
Chicago 2010
- 2006
Nice Bombs
Nice Bombs02006HD
In Nice Bombs filmmaker Usama Alshaibi returns to Baghdad to reunite with his family after nearly 24 years. This documentary navigates through his...
- 2008
Runaway
Runaway02008HD
Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.
- 2008
Patient
Patient02008HD
A bandaged woman writhes naked on a bed.
- 1970
The Speech By the Sweet Young Beeper
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Zeek Sheck Rules The Cloud People (But Not For Long) - Speech Joe
- 2004
Hold My Scissors
Hold My Scissors02004HD
"Hold My Scissors from Chicago's most prolific underground filmmaker, Usama Alshaibi, combines images of blood, cannibalism, witches, and demons,...
- 2000
Death Jerk-Off 2000
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A cut up exploration in film-kink and video-noise fetish for the children of the millennium.
- 2006
Eid Sacrifice
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Traditional slaughter of an animal for Islamic holiday Eid.
- 1970
Boy from War
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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....