Movies

Ass is a vivisection that attacks the optic nerves and creates a conflict within the body.

A bandaged woman writhes naked on a bed.

An experimental film focusing on the writhing form of Katinka.

An eerily stylized deconstruction of exploitation and violence in life and cinema.

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...

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...

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

Alshaibi's father playing Iraqi folk music.

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

Chicago, 2008.

Chicago, May 2008

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

Chicago 2010

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

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

Here’s the literal definition of “art cinema”: Usama Alshaibi’s short piece ‘My Third Painting,’ which plays like...

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....