Our short film, Trip Ziggurat, premiers tonight at the Chicago Palestine Film Festival, and we will be there!

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Please check out our short film Trip Ziggurat, playing this Friday April 10 at ACT Human Rights Film Festival!

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New paintings, self-portraits, acrylic on canvas.

My latest feature film, This Has Already Happened, will premiere on February 27, at 7pm at East Window gallery in Boulder, Colorado!

A fictional expression of a truthful event.

During a pandemic and ongoing climate fires, a man in his home experiences a collapse of time and perception.

Our current government is the enemy of the people of the United States.

Every person deserves to live freely without the government harassing them. This fight will continue, it’s clear who the enemy is.

New paintings this new year. I was drawing and painting before I could read and write, it’s in my peripheral nervous system. It is partially skill and talent but mostly focusing on a quieter presence forming from the unseen.

The trees, rock, sun and moon, in Colorado at the end of 2025.

With my fairy wife love.

My wife is immune compromised and I wear a mask to protect her. People that wear masks are protecting others and themselves. We all have the right to wear a mask without it being vilified, and we also have the right to wear a mask for fun. #getoverit

I'm mostly on insta if you want to connect:
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Bombshell: Iraqi Secret Videos and Artifacts From a Fallen Regime : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive 15:35 minutes; video; color; black & white Completed March 2004This video is compiled from several appropriated clips from VCD’s (Video Compact Discs)...

Now streaming on Internet Archive, my 2004 film: Bombshell: Iraqi Secret Videos and Artifacts From a Fallen Regime.

This video is compiled from several appropriated clips from VCD’s (Video Compact Discs) that are sold in Baghdad.

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#Iraq #IraqWar #SaddamHussein

If the present is badly wrapped, then it’s from me.

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Light is feeling. #nofilter

Soon : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Soon
2:12 minutes, January 2022Film by Usama Alshaibi
Written by Usama Alshaibi and Lauren Samblanet
Super 8mm film footage shot by Hameed...

The original footage is from 8mm film my father shot that was then transferred to a variety of video tapes and systems. I was interested in how those moving images mutate and glitch into their own form. This transformation is like the memory, the pain and the history of trauma manifesting visually.

SOON by Usama Alshaibi
"This film is about my experience as a child that survived war. footage from super 8 film my father shot that was then transferred to a variety of video tapes and systems." Showing on 22nd November at @CinemaMuseum Advance tickets: ticketlab.app/event/35670#/

We are everything and nothing.

We are many and they are pathetic, dumb and few. The United States of America belongs to all of us and we will save our country from tyranny.

Millions of true Americans are standing up to this racist authoritarian regime ruled over by a weak insecure orange man. We will succeed and history will remember this moment. Immigrants built this country, and racists are always trying to kill and harm us.
No more.

I’m always on to my next cinematic project. In paper, in thoughts, scribbles and drafts, rough to refinement, the noise with glow, cicadas, tears, and forever.

Hello Colorado! I’m a filmmaker-artist and professor, originally from Baghdad , and come from Chicago and the Midwest. Let’s connect fellow weirdo creatives!
#coloradofilm #coloradoartists

I believe in full human rights for every individual in the United States.
I believe we should be free to love anyone we want to love and express our desires freely.
I believe in freedom of speech & freedom of expression in all forms.
I believe it is essential to fight tyranny & authoritarianism.

Today’s theme #relax

The time is now to do the right thing and break this immoral blockade. Israel is committing mass genocide and we need to come together and show our humanity and save the people of Gaza.
We can have a better world, we are many and the time is now. Free Palestine.

Baghdad Iowa : Usama Alshaibi : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive This liminal landscape, artificial yet grounded in a personal cultural mash-up of memory and pain, is seen through the camera, or the windshield as screen, as...

“It is the mask, the shadow and the night stars that sing the sorrow song of death. The traveler is you and the voice you hear is your own. You might be dreaming, so don’t wake up until you arrive in Baghdad, Iowa.

Baghdad, Iowa now streaming here:

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Fascism is quickly becoming the new normal in the United States.

The Shadow : Usama Alshaibi : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive The ShadowHD, 15:09 minutes, 2020By Usama Alshaibi with Golbon EghtedariPremiered at the Iranian Film Festival San Francisco, September 2021The Shadow is about...

The Shadow
By Usama Alshaibi with Golbon Eghtedari

The Shadow is about actor Golbon Eghtedari, who plays an insurgent character in the Clint Eastwood movie American Sniper. Golbon, who was born in Iran, discusses her conflicted feelings about her role and the film.
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