Here are all of Issa's major filmed efforts. All with original music and a narrative of love, loss, merriment and mental health concerns.

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 more!

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END TIMES TELETHON- 2025 76 minutes

Just imagine lost footage found of an old school 1980’s telethon mixed up with smarmy and amateur hosts shilling for a dubious cause with unattainable goals, wonky tech fails (International Dubbing System a.k.a. Dub-O-Matic), and questionable musical acts and you’ve got a recipe for a televised train wreck that you can’t look away from.

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.

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?

Dreaming in Black + White 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. Though the video was presented as a silent film I took the liberty to use an instrumental mix of one of my compositions as a bed.