Usama Alshaibi

A short film by Usama Alshaibi

Formally, an intriguing depiction of video as forward motion, or as technology of road movies and dreams. Alshaibi intercuts footage of a Southeastern Asian trip with a young man’s venereal disease-influenced fantasies of a strange young woman.

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

An adventure in pornographic surrealism.

No synopsis available yet.

What is preventing these people from completing video penetration?

A short film by Usama Alshaibi

Formally, an intriguing depiction of video as forward motion, or as technology of road movies and dreams. Alshaibi intercuts footage of a Southeastern Asian trip with a young man’s venereal disease-influenced fantasies of a strange young woman.

Formally, an intriguing depiction of video as forward motion, or as technology of road movies and dreams. Alshaibi intercuts footage of a Southeastern Asian trip with a young man’s venereal disease-influenced fantasies of a strange young woman.

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

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

An adventure in pornographic surrealism.

An adventure in pornographic surrealism.

No synopsis available yet.

What is preventing these people from completing video penetration?

What is preventing these people from completing video penetration?

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 arrive.

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 arrive.

Rhythm and repetition plays an important role in the animated film Allahu Akbar by Usama Alshaibi. With this film, Alshaibi questions the confrontation between tradition and modernity by drawing inspiration from geometric motives of Islamic art. The artist offers a re-interpretation of these motifs through computer animation. By turning the shapes in different direction, new images are generated, freeing them from their fixed state. Traditional spiritual values feed the present and open up to a modern perspective.

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

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

Study of a schizophrenic girl in her own language.

A devotion to beauty, aching and isolation.

A road trip to a Ziggurat in Colorado sparks connection between Arabs in the state. Filmmaker, Usama Alshaibi, embarks on a journey to the Crestone Ziggurat. His personal pilgrimage intertwines with the stories of other Arabs in Boulder who find ways of bringing their homelands to the state.

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

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

An experimental film focusing on the writhing form of Katinka.

In Nice Bombs filmmaker Usama Alshaibi returns to Baghdad to reunite with his family after nearly 24 years. This documentary navigates through his unique relationship to an Iraq that is much different than the country of his childhood.

Experimental short about the Qawliya gypsies in Iraq.

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

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

A bandaged woman writhes naked on a bed.

Close-up of a woman crying.

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

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

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

Iraqi-American filmmaker Usama Alshaibi shares his own story of experiencing racism in post-9/11 America. Showcasing the diversity of Arabs living in the United States, "American Arab" sparks a frank conversation about identity and perception, and argues for giving people "the space to be complicated."

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. He meets a woman who calls herself Jane Doe. They share a common fear and are drawn to one another through their paranoia.

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. He meets a woman who calls herself Jane Doe. They share a common fear and are drawn to one another through their paranoia.

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

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

This film is about my experience as a child who survived war. The original footage is from Super-8mm film my father shot that was then transferred to a variety of video tapes and systems. I was interested in how those moving images mutate and glitch into their own form. This transformation is like the memory, the pain, and the history of trauma manifesting visually.

This film is about my experience as a child who survived war. The original footage is from Super-8mm film my father shot that was then transferred to a variety of video tapes and systems. I was interested in how those moving images mutate and glitch into their own form. This transformation is like the memory, the pain, and the history of trauma manifesting visually.

Nine short experimental films of transgressive cinema.

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

Traditional slaughter of an animal for Islamic holiday Eid.