Usama Alshaibi Movies

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

What is preventing these people from completing video penetration?

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

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

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

A devotion to beauty, aching and isolation.

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

A short film by Usama Alshaibi

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

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

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

Experimental short about the Qawliya gypsies in Iraq.

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

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

An adventure in pornographic surrealism.

Experimental short made from a family recording.

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

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

Close-up of a woman crying.