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Profane finishing funds needed

kristie — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:29:36 +0000

Award winning motion picture Profane needs some help to be completed. The films needs a final sound mix and some minor color correction. After that the film will be pressed onto DVD and shipped out for you! This film has been completely financed independently through producers Kristie and Usama Alshaibi.

Please listen to director Usama Alshaibi’s personal message and watch clips from the film. Click here to help fund this project!

‘Profane’ Fundraiser from Artvamp on Vimeo.

Profane at the Sydney Underground Film Festival

kristie — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 19:04:00 +0000

September 9, 2011
Sydney Underground Film Festival

Check out a preview here:

Profane premiering at Chicago Underground Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center Fridau June 3 & Wednesday June 8

kristie — Sun, 15 May 2011 23:11:27 +0000

For more information click here.

Best feature Boston Underground Film Festival PROFANE!

kristie — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:17:01 +0000

BUFF Announces Our 2011 Awards!

Best of Fest Feature: Profane (Usama Alshaibi)

Profane North American film premiere at Boston Underground Film Festival

kristie — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:04:11 +0000

PROFANE will have its US premiere at the Boston Underground Film Festival on Saturday, March 26th & 29th, 2011 at 11:55pm at the Kendall Square Cinema in Cambridge, MA

When in a time of spiritual crisis, people may not be at their most rational. We meet Muna in the midst of just such a situation. Muna lives in Chicago and works as a dominatrix in self-imposed exile from her conservative family in the Middle East. What Muna is searching for is her “jinn,” the Islamic equivalent of a demon. Equal parts good and evil, a jinn is created from smokeless fire and resides in all of us according to the Quran. Muna is essentially seeking out demonic possession.

We stay with Muna throughout her pro-domme sessions, her tenuous friendship with a cabdriver named Ali, who attempts to reconnect her to the culture with which she has lost touch, and her libertine friend Mary, who brings Muna’s rebellious nature to the surface. We follow her through a maze of indulgence and excess in the hopes that she will find the sense of self that has been eluding her during her extended life in the States.

Renowned underground filmmaker Usama Alshaibi pulls no punches in his first film to grace BUFF screens since 2004. With its sado-masochistic eroticism juxtaposed with traditional Islamic imagery, it would be easy to dismiss Profane as anti-religious agit-prop. But Alshaibi invests so much depth in his main character, and so much lurks beneath the surface of his sometimes shocking setpieces, that it is easy to see that Profane is an intensely personal experience for its author. Known equally for his non-fiction filmmaking as he is for his contribution to transgressive cinema, Alshaibi applies his skills as a documentarian to this psycho-sexual horror story of one woman’s struggle with her identity and the culture clash between Middle Eastern mythology and Western pop culture. — Kevin Monahan

Screening in Kansas City: Wave Energies FeedBack

kristie — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 00:10:43 +0000

Electromediascope Fall 2010: Wave Energies FeedBack: 30 Years of Electronic Media at Kansas City Art Institute

Nelson Atkins Museum of Art
October 15, 2010

Atkins Auditorium | Click here for tickets.

In celebration of the Kansas City Art Institute’s 125th Anniversary, this Electromediascope Program features works by KCAI alumni from the past 30 years.

October 15
Video works by Ascot Smith, Robert Renfrow, Naoko Wowsugi, Robert Heishman, Cyan Meeks, Brendan Meara, Jamie Hitchings and Kristie Alshaibi. Live sound and video performance by Kristin Miltner.

A benefit for American Arab a documentary in progress

kristie — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:02:46 +0000

Kartemquin Films and director Usama Alshaibi invite you to

A BENEFIT FOR AMERICAN ARAB
A documentary in progress

Thursday, August 5th, 6-9pm
The Stan Mansion
2408 North Kedzie, Chicago, Illinois 60647

Enjoy an evening of Music by Black Bear Combo, Middle Eastern Food,
Cash Bar*, Raffle, Belly Dancing, Henna Tattoos, and the World Premiere
of clips from the upcoming film American Arab.

Proceeds will support production of the film.
(Click here for information)

Cinema Alshaibi Saturday June 26 at Fat Rabbit FREE

kristie — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:53:08 +0000

Husband and wife collaborators Usama and Kristie Alshaibi are presenting some rarely seen short videos created between 1998 and 2010. This will include early 16mm films by both directors as well as a number of collaborations shot on a wide array of mediums.

In addition, we will premiere a trailer of Usama’s new feature length movie, “Profane.”

The Alshaibis will be selling copies of their limited edition book A History of Flying Vaginas and their DVD of short artfully perverse films titled “Solar Anus Cinema.”

The event is FREE. But please help the Alshaibis in any way you can by buying merchandise or contributing to http://profanemovie.com to help raise finishing funds for the new feature. BYOB.

Saturday June 26, 2010
@Fat Rabbit 1711 S. Halsted,
Chicago, IL 60608

Help support Artvamp’s new movie Profane

kristie — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:49:48 +0000

only 20 copies left!

kristie — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:09:45 +0000

Last year Usama and Kristie Alshaibi attended an artists’ residency in the Netherlands called Extrapool. The end result was a children’s book for adults called

A History of Flying Vaginas

A limited edition of 200 were printed. There are just 20 copies left for purchase. Printed on Acid Free Paper using the antiquated Stencilprint process, each copy is signed by the artists.

Available for $20 each.

To order contact Kristie: kristie@artvamp.com