Usama Alshaibi Movies

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.

What is preventing these people from completing video penetration?

A woman is chased across a field by an unseen assailant.

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

Traditional slaughter of an animal for Islamic holiday Eid.

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

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

An adventure in pornographic surrealism.

A young Muslim Dominatrix in the midst of a spiritual crisis.

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

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...

A short experimental film about processing internal stress outwardly through the creative process.

"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....

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

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

Close-up of a woman crying.

An experimental film focusing on the writhing form of Katinka.

This video is compiled from several appropriated clips from VCD's(Video Compact Discs) that are sold in Baghdad.Iraqi-American filmmaker Usama Alshaibi...makes some striking juxtapositions with his work "Bombshell: Iraqi Secret Videos and Artifacts from a Fallen Regime," which split-screens a...

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...