Pebbles Underground

film and video art

THIS HAS ALREADY HAPPENED by Usama Alshaibi | USA | 2025

Bypebbles

Duration: 00:57:00

A fictional expression of a truthful event.

During a pandemic and ongoing climate fires, a man in his home experiences a collapse of time and perception, forcing him to confront what is real, what is imagined, and whether he is truly safe.

WRITER, DIRECTOR : Usama Alshaibi
Music : James Marlon Magas
CAST :
Feather Miigwan,
Usama Alshaibi,
Adam Sekuler,
Muneera Alshaibi,
Katherine Avery, Lily Duffy
SOUND MIX : Matteah Baim
EDITOR : Jack Dorfman and Usama Alshaibi
CREATIVE CONSULTANT : Lauren Samblanet
CINEMATOGRAPHY : Usama Alshaibi
SOUND DESIGN : Usama Alshaibi, Jack Dorfam
ADDITIONAL CAMERA : Talia Watrous
GRAPHIC DESIGN : Tyler Rubenfeld


CONTACTS / LINKS : https://usamaalshaibi.com/  @djinnisin 

 

Director’s statement

I want to interact with the real and the unreal, a cinema of the seen and unseen. I try and conjure up spirits from the dirt illuminated by the camera, reflexive and instinctive. The story of my practice is that I am living inside the film and the film is living. I want to be free from the imposed linearity of time in this realm, and fracture it within the structure of film, free from the body but made with the body.

Sit in the Silence
Vertical Time Zone
Liminal is the Night
Phone Call from the Past
Phone Call from the Future

 

Bio

Usama Alshaibi was born in Baghdad, Iraq and spent his formative years living between the United States and the Middle East. He’s an active filmmaker and artist, who works in documentary and fiction, often blurring the line between the two. His films have screened widely at underground and international film festivals, media exhibitions and museums. He’s received grants from organizations such as the MacArthur Foundation, the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, the Playboy Foundation, and the Creative Capital Foundation for the Arts.

 

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Pebbles Underground is focused on showcasing and promoting experimental, avant-garde, underground, and no-to-low budget projects by artist-humans from all over the world. Absurd, uncanny, witty, humorous, slow-video – all are welcomed, and loved. Pebbles Underground is an independent project not funded by any government or corporation, and we intend to keep it that way. Main source of funding is personal donations from humans organizing the project, who are artists themselves, and the main drive of the project is formed by the energy and involvement of the organizers, and the public.

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Pebbles Underground is focused on showcasing and promoting experimental, avant-garde, underground, and no-to-low budget projects by artist-humans from all over the world. Absurd, uncanny, witty, humorous, slow-video – all are welcomed, and loved. Pebbles Underground is an independent project not funded by any government or corporation, and we intend to keep it that way. Main source of funding is personal donations from humans organizing the project, who are artists themselves, and the main drive of the project is formed by the energy and involvement of the organizers, and the public.

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