Here are all of Issa's filmed efforts, from his first experimental short installed at the Queens Museum, through his series of full-length films. All with original music and a narrative of love, loss, merriment and mental health concerns.

After the successful screening of his politically charged 6-minute experimental film Dreaming in Black & White at the Queens Museum of Art in 2002, Ibrahim continued his interest in film. Using a mock therapeutic backdrop married to the music video idiom he presented an award-winning autobiographical 48-minute musical documentary titled Patients Rites. He has made many other musical documentaries, Pop Music Voodoo about the rise of fascism, MAD LOVE about his long-time love with his artist partner, Queens Homecoming dealing with his complicated relationship with Queens, NY, the ambitious Cosmic Knockout, attempting to make sense of his schizophrenic mind, and Portrait of An Artist, co-created with documentarian geo geller that was 20 year in the making.

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Please enjoy this minute long trailer to his next work The Last Black Man On Earth. Full movie coming in spring 2025.

A pretend virtual documentary sci-fi small screen extravaganza. Would you trust a mentally ill artist to negotiate the fate of civilization with aliens over zoom? Only if he were The Last Black Man on Earth.

Queens Homecoming- 2023 30 minutes

This musical documentary film sings the praises and exposes the ugly underbelly of Issa’s hometown, the county of Queens, New York. This is a love/hate letter in story and song about his complex relationship with Queens, the glory and the shame.

MAD LOVE- 2020 53 minutes

What do you get when 2 artists meet in an asylum and are tested by time, trust, faith and the power of creativity? MAD LOVE. A true story of art and romance in and out of the asylum.

Patient’s Rites- 2015 44 minutes

Using the institution of popular song married to the music video idiom, Issa created a 48-minute musical documentary. It exposes the familiar tropes and stereotypes associated with the mental health community while opening a dialogue about stigma. Think of it as a therapy session set to music.

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The Cosmic Knockout- 2024 40 minutes

With lost and found footage married to Ibrahim's artwork and his asylum pop music, punctuated by post-release interviews and audio excerpts from his memoir, The Cosmic Knockout is guerrilla filmmaking at its finest.

Dreaming In Black + White- 2002 6 minutes

Video installation first presented at The Queens Museum of Art group exhibition In The Flow: Artists From The Living Museum in March 2002. Filmed and co-edited with Museum Art Access Manager Kit Shapiro.

Pop Music Voodoo- 2019 59 minutes

A vagabond schizophrenic musician spirals into his own alternate sense of reality and beyond by the presidential candidacy of Donald Trump. Silent film in a head on collision with music video, is this a mockumentary or the beginning of the end of the world?