Usama Alshaibi Movies

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

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

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?

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

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

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.

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

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 devotion to beauty, aching and isolation.

Experimental short about the Qawliya gypsies in Iraq.

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

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

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

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

A short film by Usama Alshaibi

Alshaibi's father playing Iraqi folk music.

Close-up of a woman crying.