Usama Alshaibi Movies

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

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.

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

An adventure in pornographic surrealism.

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

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

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

What is preventing these people from completing video penetration?

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

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

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."

A devotion to beauty, aching and isolation.

Boy from War is an animated coming-of- age story of a young Arab American punk ricocheting between a war-torn Middle East and 1980s American Midwest....

Experimental short about the Qawliya gypsies in Iraq.

Close-up of a woman crying.

Muhammad Zeromski, raised in Iraq and Poland, returns to the U.S. after being away for almost a year. The climate he enters is ominous and confused....

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.