Usama Alshaibi Movies

An adventure in pornographic surrealism.

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

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

Study of a schizophrenic girl in her own language.

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...

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

A short film by Usama Alshaibi

What is preventing these people from completing video penetration?

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

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

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

Experimental short about the Qawliya gypsies in Iraq.

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

A devotion to beauty, aching and isolation.

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....

Close-up of a woman crying.

Traditional slaughter of an animal for Islamic holiday Eid.