Usama Alshaibi Movies

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

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

A short film by Usama Alshaibi

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

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

A cut up exploration in film-kink and video-noise fetish for the children of the millennium.

Chicago 2010

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

In Nice Bombs filmmaker Usama Alshaibi returns to Baghdad to reunite with his family after nearly 24 years. This documentary navigates through his...

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

What is preventing these people from completing video penetration?

An experimental film focusing on the writhing form of Katinka.

A devotion to beauty, aching and isolation.

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...

Here’s the literal definition of “art cinema”: Usama Alshaibi’s short piece ‘My Third Painting,’ which plays like...

Experimental short about the Qawliya gypsies in Iraq.

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

This video is compiled from several appropriated clips from VCD's(Video Compact Discs) that are sold in Baghdad.Iraqi-American filmmaker Usama...