Usama Alshaibi Movies

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

An experimental film focusing on the writhing form of Katinka.

A bandaged woman writhes naked on a bed.

Experimental short about the Qawliya gypsies in Iraq.

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...

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

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

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

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

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

"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...

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

A cut up exploration in film-kink and video-noise fetish for the children of the millennium.

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

Chicago, 2008.

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....

Alshaibi's father playing Iraqi folk music.

Chicago 2010

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

Chicago, May 2008