Usama Alshaibi Movies

A collection of 190-second short films created in response to COVID-19, commissioned by filmmakers Usama Alshaibi and Adam Sekuler.

Super 8 video shot by Alshaibi's brother in Samarra.

Rhythm and repetition plays an important role in the animated film Allahu Akbar by Usama Alshaibi. With this film, Alshaibi questions the...

A young Muslim Dominatrix in the midst of a spiritual crisis.

An adventure in pornographic surrealism.

"This was made with my daughter Muneera. She wrote it and stars in it. Using black and white reversal super-8mm film."

Experimental short made from a family recording.

A short experimental film about processing internal stress outwardly through the creative process.

A psychedelic portrait of the founding theorist of Christianity, Paul the Apostle. His life, ideology and influence are reconstructed by piecing...

Alshaibi's father playing Iraqi folk music.

What is preventing these people from completing video penetration?

This video is compiled from several appropriated clips from VCD's(Video Compact Discs) that are sold in Baghdad.Iraqi-American filmmaker Usama...

Ass is a vivisection that attacks the optic nerves and creates a conflict within the body.

A short film by Usama Alshaibi

Experimental short about the Qawliya gypsies in Iraq.

Baghdad, Iowa is the mask, the shadow and the night stars that sing the sorrow song of death. You might be dreaming, so don't wake up until you...

Formally, an intriguing depiction of video as forward motion, or as technology of road movies and dreams. Alshaibi intercuts footage of a...

A woman is chased across a field by an unseen assailant.

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.