Usama Alshaibi Movies

An adventure in pornographic surrealism.

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

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

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

Close-up of a woman crying.

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

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

What is preventing these people from completing video penetration?

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

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...

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

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

A devotion to beauty, aching and isolation.

Traditional slaughter of an animal for Islamic holiday Eid.

Chicago, May 2008

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

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

Experimental short made from a family recording.

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.