Movies

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 woman lying on a hardwood floor covered in plastic wrap.

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

Close-up of a woman crying.

An experimental film focusing on the writhing form of Katinka.

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

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...

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

Experimental short made from a family recording.

Traditional slaughter of an animal for Islamic holiday Eid.

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....

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

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

Chicago 2010

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

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

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

Chicago, May 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....

"Hold My Scissors from Chicago's most prolific underground filmmaker, Usama Alshaibi, combines images of blood, cannibalism, witches, and demons,...