Filmes

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

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

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

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

An adventure in pornographic surrealism.

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

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

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

What is preventing these people from completing video penetration?

Experimental short made from a family recording.

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

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

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

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....

Chicago, May 2008

Usama Alshaibi-directed short film.

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

Alshaibi's father playing Iraqi folk music.

A devotion to beauty, aching and isolation.