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

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

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

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.

"Hold My Scissors from Chicago's most prolific underground filmmaker, Usama Alshaibi, combines images of blood, cannibalism, witches, and demons,...

Mythological creatures parade and swim in an acid Greek mythos. A broadcast from beyond, with lurid flesh and Arabesque disco.

Traditional slaughter of an animal for Islamic holiday Eid.

Iraqi-American filmmaker Usama Alshaibi shares his own story of experiencing racism in post-9/11 America. Showcasing the diversity of Arabs living in...

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

Zeek Sheck Rules The Cloud People (But Not For Long) - Speech Joe

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

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

A devotion to beauty, aching and isolation.

Close-up of a woman crying.

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....

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

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