Movies
- 2008
Spoiled
Spoiled02008HD
Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.
- 2016
Baghdad, Iowa
Baghdad, Iowa02016HD
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...
- 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...
- 2004
Self-Contained
Self-Contained02004HD
A woman lying on a hardwood floor covered in plastic wrap.
- 2002
Soak
Soak02002HD
Formally, an intriguing depiction of video as forward motion, or as technology of road movies and dreams. Alshaibi intercuts footage of a...
- 2008
Organ Molly
Organ Molly02008HD
Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.
- 2008
Gash
Gash02008HD
An experimental film focusing on the writhing form of Katinka.
- 2007
Baba Boom Boom
Baba Boom Boom8.52007HD
Alshaibi's father playing Iraqi folk music.
- 2008
Runaway
Runaway02008HD
Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.
- 2003
Muhammad and Jane
Muhammad and Jane02003HD
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....
- 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...
- 2008
Looking at Clouds
Looking at Clouds02008HD
Chicago, 2008.
- 2008
Patient
Patient02008HD
A bandaged woman writhes naked on a bed.
- 2010
My Fourth Painting
My Fourth Painting02010HD
Chicago 2010
- 2008
My Second Painting
My Second Painting02008HD
Chicago, May 2008
- 2007
Signal Cross Over
Signal Cross Over02007HD
"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...
- 1970
The Speech By the Sweet Young Beeper
The Speech By the Sweet Young Beeper01970HD
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
Eid Sacrifice02006HD
Traditional slaughter of an animal for Islamic holiday Eid.