Usama Alshaibi Movies

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...

An adventure in pornographic surrealism.

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

A short film by Usama Alshaibi

What is preventing these people from completing video penetration?

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

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

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

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

Close-up of a woman crying.

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

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

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

Study of a schizophrenic girl in her own language.

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

A young artist in a dark dorm room takes anxieties out of their brain and into their hands.

A devotion to beauty, aching and isolation.

Traditional slaughter of an animal for Islamic holiday Eid.

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....