Category: News
Check out Kino Klub Split, a film society in Croatia, holding weekly screenings and they’ve been playing many of my films all year. This week they will be showing my short film The Flowering, part of a group show on September 13th.
More info here.
Check out the Chicago Underground Film Festival trailer I directed with Usilia Warood and cinematography by Ben Hernstrom.
If you enjoy my films please consider purchasing my latest zine Boy from War. These are selections from my art journals when I was 18 years old and full of passion and angst. I was a romantic weird guy, trying to figure out my life by working out my stuff in drawings and words.
This is a hardcover zine with 80 sides and 40 pages.
Rare polaroid (my mom found) of our house in Basra, Iraq after several bombings in 1982.
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.
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 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.
Rare picture of me teaching at the University of Colorado Boulder on how to direct actors in film.
(picture by Geoff Marslett)
A film-in-progress with Usilia Warood.
