We Shoot Your Music - April 25
WE SHOOT YOUR MUSIC
Music Videos from 1998-2008
WHAT: Music Videos by Usama and Kristie Alshaibi from 1998-2008
WHEN: Friday April 25, 2008 at 9:00 pm
WHERE: Medicine Park Gallery 2659 West Chicago Ave, Chicago 60622
(phone: 773.255.5582)
CONTACT: Amy Cargill : medparkchicago@gmail.com
IN ATTENDANCE: Kristie and Usama Alshaibi with Performance by Magic is
Küntmaster and Mykel Boyd.
http://www.medparkchicago.com
http://wwww.dancehabibi.com
“Although I have worked with many of these musicians on narrative and experimental films, these videos are made specifically for their music. All these were shot in Chicago in collaboration with the musicians and other filmmakers. You will notice some of the musicians as actors in other videos as well. Although I have directed most of these, Kristie and I work very closely together. She has worked as producer, performer and on her latest debut, as director for the new Magic is Küntmaster music video. The videos were shot on a variety of formats from analog tube cameras to HD.”
–Usama Alshaibi:
usama@artvamp.com
FORGET HER music by Magic is Küntmaster (4:45, video,directed by Kristie Alshaibi with Camilla
Ha)
TELL THE POLICE THE TRUTH music by Mahjongg (3:57, video, directed and edited by Usama
Alshaibi with Mahjongg, cinematography Amy Cargill)
WHOOP DRAFT music by Water Babies (4:27, video, by Usama Alshaibi)
VANITAS music by Bobby Conn (8:00, video, directed by Usama Alshaibi, produced by Kristie
Alshaibi, cinematography by Chris Rejano, edited by Amy Cargill)
WHEN THE MONEY’S GONE music by Bobby Conn (3:23, video, directed by Usama Alshaibi,
produced by Kristie Alshaibi, cinematography by Chris Rejano, edited by Amy Cargill)
KING FOR A DAY (CD Version) music by Bobby Conn (4:00, video, directed by Usama Alshaibi,
produced by Kristie Alshaibi, cinematography by Chris Rejano, edited by Amy Cargill)
KING FOR A DAY (Party Version) music by Bobby Conn (4:00, video, by Usama Alshaibi)
LOVELY LITTLE GIRLS LIVE music by Lovely Little Girls (4:50, video, by Usama Alshaibi)
STABBED IN THE FACE music by Panicsville (6:53, video, by Usama Alshaibi)
HOLD MY SCISSORS music by Magic is Küntmaster (4:17, video, directed and edited by Usama
Alshaibi with Camilla Ha)
ANGELS music by Bobby Conn (4:30, video, by Usama Alshaibi)
THE SPEECH music by Zeek Sheck (4:30, 16mm film, directed by Usama Alshaibi)
NICE BOMBS Premiering on the Sundance Channel March 19, 2008
Artvamp is proud to announce the broadcast premiere of “NICE BOMBS.”
THE SUNDANCE CHANNEL
MARCH 19
6:30 EST/PST
Check your local listing for channel number.
NICE BOMBS follows director Usama Alshaibi on a journey back to his home town of Baghdad, Iraq.
“thoroughly engaging . . .offers a uniquely time-layered vision of the war.“-Ronnie Scheib, Variety
“Loaded with candid conversations and opinions about the hot-button issues of war, terrorism, and Islamic extremism,’Nice Bombs’ offers many different Iraqi and American points of view and portrays a time and place of nightmarish complexity.“- Bruce Bennett, NEW YORK SUN
“Chicago filmmaker Usama Alshaibi grew up in Iraq and the U.S., and although he recently became an American citizen, his personal video documentary has plenty to say about the day-to-day existence of his Baghdad relatives, whom he visited in 2004. Distance tends to simplify our view of anything, and this video humanizes the situation on the ground mostly by complicating it: in a voice-over Alshaibi says he’s often asked what “”the Iraqis” think, but by the end this question has become as meaningless as asking what “the Americans” think. Much of his previous work has been experimental, but this becomes formally adventurous only near the end, as he converses by phone with a cousin who tells him how much worse the situation has grown this year.” 92 min.-Jonathan Rosenbaum, Critics Choice, Chicago Reader.
“In early 2004 Chicago filmmaker Usama Alshaibi returned to his native Iraq with his wife, producer Kristie Alshaibi, and his camera. He had been away for nearly a quarter-century. The result is a surprisingly warm first-person video diary, blending a series of reunions with Alshaibi’s vast array of relatives and footage of the bazaars, streets, homes and everyday perils of life in post-Saddam, mid-occupation and mid-chaos Iraq.“-Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
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