Remembering Nice Bombs premiere

It was a great day. Christie Hefner and Studs Terkel introduced the film. My Mother and brother came out to see me. We sold out the Music Box Theater as the opening film for the Chicago Underground Film Festival. This was back in the summer of 2006.

With Studs Terkel, My Mom, producer Ben Berkowitz and my wife Kristie.

My Mother holding me

'Profane' film review in Boston Phoenix

In Iraqi-American filmmaker Usama Alshaibi's PROFANE (2010; Kendall Square: March 26 @ 11:55 pm + March 29 @ 9:45 pm), Muna, a Chicago dominatrix, discusses how much she likes her job as she uses a riding crop to prod the genitals of a bound and masked client. But Muna is also a lapsed Muslim. She hears voices, which the solicitous cab driver Ali explains are coming from a jinn, a kind of guardian demon, who haunts her.

Torn between ecstasy and submission, Muna takes an unorthodox path to enlightenment, one that Profane dramatizes with documentary methods and psychedelic imagery. In the best underground tradition, Alshaibi — who recently was savagely beaten in an anti-Arab hate crime — demonstrates that true reverence sometimes requires transgression.

From Boston Phoenix By PETER KEOUGH | March 16, 2011

Djinn is in

Solar Anus Cinem

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Flying Vagina book by Usama and Kristie created at Extrapool

Our Flying Vagina book displayed with albums by Edward Ka-Spel (from Legendary Pink Dots) at Extrapool.