So I've been looking around on the internet lately for films and filmakers that have no hope or care for conventional acceptance. Guess what? I found Usama Alshaibi, the Iraqi/Chicago underground filmaker! He, along with his occasional collaborator and wife, Kristie Alshaib, make films that cover your eyes over with a nice, sticky fluid. There's expressionist animation (Allahu Akbar, Signal Cross Over), there's blown-out color explorations of unknown fleshy landscapes with unsettling superimpositions of eyeballs and mouths (Flesh Tone Genesis, Stabbed In the Face) , there's modest and personal documentaries (Nice Bombs, Baba Boom Boom), and, naturally, sexy girls with awful makeup doing disgusting things (Spoiled, Signal Cross Over). There's a DVD out called Solar Anus that is a collection of disturbing short films. Check out his YouTube page here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/dancehabibi
and his personal homepage here:
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