Usama Alshaibi Movies

What is preventing these people from completing video penetration?

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

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

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

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

An experimental film focusing on the writhing form of Katinka.

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.

A short film by Usama Alshaibi

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

Close-up of a woman crying.

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

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

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....

Traditional slaughter of an animal for Islamic holiday Eid.

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

Chicago, May 2008

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.