Usama Alshaibi Movies

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

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

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

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.

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

An adventure in pornographic surrealism.

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

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

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....

Experimental short made from a family recording.

Baghdad, Iowa is the mask, the shadow and the night stars that sing the sorrow song of death. You might be dreaming, so don't wake up until you...

A short film by Usama Alshaibi

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

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

Alshaibi's father playing Iraqi folk music.

A devotion to beauty, aching and isolation.