Usama Alshaibi Movies

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.

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

What is preventing these people from completing video penetration?

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...

An adventure in pornographic surrealism.

An experimental film focusing on the writhing form of Katinka.

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

A short film by Usama Alshaibi

Traditional slaughter of an animal for Islamic holiday Eid.

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

Close-up of a woman crying.

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

Experimental short about the Qawliya gypsies in Iraq.

A devotion to beauty, aching and isolation.

A bandaged woman writhes naked on a bed.

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

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...