Usama Alshaibi Movies

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.

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 young Muslim Dominatrix in the midst of a spiritual crisis.

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

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

An adventure in pornographic surrealism.

A bandaged woman writhes naked on a bed.

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

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

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...

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....

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

Experimental short about the Qawliya gypsies in Iraq.

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

Close-up of a woman crying.

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

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