Movies: Usama Alshaibi
- 2023
The Apocalyptic Is the Mother of All Christian Theology (2023)
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A psychedelic portrait of the founding theorist of Christianity, Paul the Apostle. His life, ideology and influence are reconstructed by piecing together 16mm footage, cassettes, animation, and Catholic liturgical music....
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- 2011
Profane (2011)
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A young Muslim Dominatrix in the midst of a spiritual crisis....
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- 2001
Ass (2001)
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Ass is a vivisection that attacks the optic nerves and creates a conflict within the body....
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- 2019
Anxiety Art (2019)
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A short experimental film about processing internal stress outwardly through the creative process....
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- 2003
Allahu Akbar (2003)
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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 ...
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- 2009
My Mother Paused By My Father (2009)
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Experimental short made from a family recording....
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- 2008
Organ Molly (2008)
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Usama Alshaibi-directed short film....
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- 2017
Filmmakers Unite (FU) (2017)
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- 2003
The Amateurs (2003)
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What is preventing these people from completing video penetration?...
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- 2020
CINEMA-19 (2020)
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A collection of 190-second short films created in response to COVID-19, commissioned by filmmakers Usama Alshaibi and Adam Sekuler....
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- 2007
Baba Boom Boom (2007)
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Alshaibi's father playing Iraqi folk music....
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- 2004
Convulsion Expulsion (2004)
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An adventure in pornographic surrealism....
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- 2001
Slaughtered Pigtails (2001)
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A woman is chased across a field by an unseen assailant....
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- 2013
American Arab (2013)
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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 ar...
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- 2020
The Desire (2020)
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A devotion to beauty, aching and isolation....
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- 2016
The Evil and the Good Fairy (2016)
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"This was made with my daughter Muneera. She wrote it and stars in it. Using black and white reversal super-8mm film."...
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- 2016
Baghdad, Iowa (2016)
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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....
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- 2009
My Third Painting (2009)
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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,...
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- 2008
Runaway (2008)
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Usama Alshaibi-directed short film....
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- 2010
My Fourth Painting (2010)
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Chicago 2010...
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