Usama Alshaibi Movies

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

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

What is preventing these people from completing video penetration?

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

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

Iraqi-American filmmaker Usama Alshaibi shares his own story of experiencing racism in post-9/11 America. Showcasing the diversity of Arabs living in...

An adventure in pornographic surrealism.

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

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

Experimental short made from a family recording.

A short film by Usama Alshaibi

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

An eerily stylized deconstruction of exploitation and violence in life and cinema.

Close-up of a woman crying.

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

A devotion to beauty, aching and isolation.

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

In Nice Bombs filmmaker Usama Alshaibi returns to Baghdad to reunite with his family after nearly 24 years. This documentary navigates through his...

A woman lying on a hardwood floor covered in plastic wrap.