Usama Alshaibi Movies

An adventure in pornographic surrealism.

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

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

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

A bandaged woman writhes naked on a bed.

An experimental film focusing on the writhing form of Katinka.

"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...

A woman lying on a hardwood floor covered in plastic wrap.

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...

Chicago 2010

Experimental short about the Qawliya gypsies in Iraq.

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

Alshaibi's father playing Iraqi folk music.

Zeek Sheck Rules The Cloud People (But Not For Long) - Speech Joe

Chicago, May 2008

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

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

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....

Experimental short made from a family recording.

Chicago, 2008.