Broadcasting on Chicago Lumpen Radio
My podcasts, Usama Talk, will be airing on Lumpen Radio! Playing on the FM dial in Chicago 105.5, and streaming on lumpenradio.com this Friday morning and re-broadcasting Saturday morning at 11am Chicago time.
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Stories in the Night podcast
These are stories from my childhood about being lost in the night with my dad, the war in Iraq with my dog, and dropping acid.
The Muslim Meme at the Roxie Theater for Filmmakers Unite
The Muslim Meme will be playing at the Roxie Theatre
Press Release:
Dear Friends,
We are excited to announce a week-long theatrical run of Filmmakers Unite (FU) at the Roxie Theatre in San Francisco, October 6- 11, 2018!
Filmmakers Unite (FU): a collective response from independent filmmakers to current threats to our democracy, freedom of speech, and civil rights.
Advance tickets recommended here.
In action
Rare picture of me teaching at the University of Colorado Boulder on how to direct actors in film.
(picture by Geoff Marslett)
Work in progress: The Desire
A film-in-progress with Usilia Warood.
YallaPunk fest in Philadelphia
The Muslim Meme and Baghdad, Iowa will play at the YallaPunk fest with City of Djinn. More info: YallaPunk is an annual gathering of Arab, Persian, MENA, etc. intersectional creatives. YallaPunk 2018 will take place in Philadelphia from August 31 – September 2, 2018.
https://www.facebook.com/yallapunk/
Muffin
Muffin
I made this short movie over 18 years ago on a cold winter night in Chicago. I convinced a good friend to buy me a Sony 3-chip mini-digital video camera, in exchange to stay in my crappy apartment for free. Back then, especially coming out of film school, video was considered low-brow, cheap and crass. But I loved video and enjoyed the possibilities it gave me. I could finally grab a camera and do it all myself. This early short movie set the DNA of much of my later work. The interview style mixed within a narrative, the … Read the rest
The Flowering
Watch my short film The Flowering. Shot on Super 8mm film and a little bit of analog video. This film just premiered at the 25th Chicago Underground Film Festival.
Welcome to Baghdad, Iowa screening at the Winnipeg Underground Film Festival
Welcome to Baghdad, Iowa will have its Canadian premiere at the Winnipeg Underground Film Festival for the 90 seconds film program.
Soak film review in Horror Estremo
[NOTE: This is auto translated from the original review in Italian from horrorestremo.altervista.org]
Here is SOAK, the first work of the volcanic Iraqi director and artist Usama Alshaibi known, best known for the extreme anthology SOLAR ANUS CINEMA (with the exaggerated CONVULSION EXPULSION) and PROFANE, film of 2012, to date his latest film work. An abstract, confused and logical work that mixes memories, desires, fears and alienation, centering on the theme of sexually transmitted diseases and violence against women in order to fulfill their somewhat distorted sexual and mental desires.
We follow the vicissitudes of a boy traveling in Southeast … Read the rest