Usama Alshaibi

Фильмы

The Desire
Director
A devotion to beauty, aching and isolation.
CINEMA-19
Director
A collection of 190-second short films created in response to COVID-19, commissioned by filmmakers Usama Alshaibi and Adam Sekuler.
Filmmakers Unite (FU)
Director
The Evil and the Good Fairy
Original Music Composer
"This was made with my daughter Muneera. She wrote it and stars in it. Using black and white reversal super-8mm film."
The Evil and the Good Fairy
Editor
"This was made with my daughter Muneera. She wrote it and stars in it. Using black and white reversal super-8mm film."
The Evil and the Good Fairy
Director
"This was made with my daughter Muneera. She wrote it and stars in it. Using black and white reversal super-8mm film."
Baghdad, Iowa
Writer
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.
Baghdad, Iowa
Director
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.
American Arab
Director
Iraqi-American filmmaker Usama Alshaibi shares his own story of experiencing racism in post-9/11 America. Showcasing the diversity of Arabs living in the United States, "American Arab" sparks a frank conversation about identity and perception, and argues for giving people "the space to be complicated."
Profane
Director
Extreme experimental exploration of Muslim Fem Dom dominatrix trying to come to terms with her beliefs
My Fourth Painting
Director
Chicago 2010
My Third Painting
Director
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. You know, part horror movie, part abstract expressionism
My Mother Paused By My Father
Director
Experimental short made from a family recording.
My Second Painting
Director
Chicago, May 2008
Spoiled
Director
Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.
Runaway
Director
Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.
Patient
Director
Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.
Organ Molly
Director
Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.
Gash
Director
Usama Alshaibi short film.
Looking at Clouds
Director
Chicago, 2008.
Dream of Samarra
Director
Super 8 video shot by Alshaibi's brother in Samarra.
Baba Boom Boom
Director
Alshaibi's father playing Iraqi folk music.
Signal Cross Over
Director
"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. Shot on an old studio tube camera from 1983, all effects were done live with alcohol, glass, fire, and lights. The sounds were also created using old technology: a burning ear cone/candle, a police scanner, and a Theremin. The music of the afterlife consists of old-time Gospel, Hindu devotionals, an Islamic call to prayer, and pre-Christian Celtic folk singing. The songs were shredded, performed, and then remixed to signify all of the souls passing on." - Kristie Alshaibi
Eid Sacrifice
Director
Traditional slaughter of an animal for Islamic holiday Eid.
Qawliya Dance
Director
Experimental short about the Qawliya gypsies in Iraq.
Self-Contained
Director
Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.
Convulsion Expulsion
Producer
An adventure in pornographic surrealism.
Convulsion Expulsion
Director
An adventure in pornographic surrealism.
Allahu Akbar
Director
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. The artist offers a re-interpretation of these motifs through computer animation. By turning the shapes in different direction, new images are generated, freeing them from their fixed state. Traditional spiritual values feed the present and open up to a modern perspective.
Muhammad and Jane
Editor
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. He meets a woman who calls herself Jane Doe. They share a common fear and are drawn to one another through their paranoia.
Muhammad and Jane
Cinematography
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. He meets a woman who calls herself Jane Doe. They share a common fear and are drawn to one another through their paranoia.
Muhammad and Jane
Executive Producer
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. He meets a woman who calls herself Jane Doe. They share a common fear and are drawn to one another through their paranoia.
Muhammad and Jane
Writer
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. He meets a woman who calls herself Jane Doe. They share a common fear and are drawn to one another through their paranoia.
Muhammad and Jane
Director
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. He meets a woman who calls herself Jane Doe. They share a common fear and are drawn to one another through their paranoia.
Muhammad and Jane
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. He meets a woman who calls herself Jane Doe. They share a common fear and are drawn to one another through their paranoia.
The Amateurs
Director
What is preventing these people from completing video penetration?
Soak
Screenplay
Formally, an intriguing depiction of video as forward motion, or as technology of road movies and dreams. Alshaibi intercuts footage of a Southeastern Asian trip with a young man’s venereal disease-influenced fantasies of a strange young woman.
Soak
Editor
Formally, an intriguing depiction of video as forward motion, or as technology of road movies and dreams. Alshaibi intercuts footage of a Southeastern Asian trip with a young man’s venereal disease-influenced fantasies of a strange young woman.
Soak
Director of Photography
Formally, an intriguing depiction of video as forward motion, or as technology of road movies and dreams. Alshaibi intercuts footage of a Southeastern Asian trip with a young man’s venereal disease-influenced fantasies of a strange young woman.
Soak
Director
Formally, an intriguing depiction of video as forward motion, or as technology of road movies and dreams. Alshaibi intercuts footage of a Southeastern Asian trip with a young man’s venereal disease-influenced fantasies of a strange young woman.
Ass
Director
Ass is a vivisection that attacks the optic nerves and creates a conflict within the body.
Slaughtered Pigtails
Director
Kristie and Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.
Death Jerk-Off 2000
Director
A cut up exploration in film-kink and video-noise fetish for the children of the millennium.
Muffin
Director
An eerily stylized deconstruction of exploitation and violence in life and cinema.
Crying
Director
Close-up of a woman crying.
Dance Habibi Dance
Producer
Mythological creatures parade and swim in an acid Greek mythos. A broadcast from beyond, with lurid flesh and Arabesque disco.
Dance Habibi Dance
Director
Mythological creatures parade and swim in an acid Greek mythos. A broadcast from beyond, with lurid flesh and Arabesque disco.
Traumata
Director
A short film by Usama Alshaibi
Solar Anus Cinema
Director
Nine short experimental films of transgressive cinema.
Boy from War
Director
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. From LSD fueled encounters with Darth Vader and Saddam Hussein, to military pilots shot down into Iowa classrooms, Usama Alshaibi blends images and memories to give the audience a taste of what it was like living between two starkly different worlds, while never really fitting into either.