# Adam Khalil [moma](https://www.moma.org/artists/67310-adam-khalil) (1988– ) ## Description Ojibway filmmaker and artist from Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, based in Brooklyn. His practice subverts conventional documentary and image-making through humor, relation, and transgression, working both with his brother Zack Khalil on essayistic accounts of Ojibway history and as a core contributor to New Red Order, a public secret society working with informants and accomplices to reimagine Indigenous futures. ## Key Tags #essay-film #installation #contemporary #decolonial #indigenous ## Essential Works - `INAATE/SE/ [it shines a certain way. to a certain place./it flies. falls.]` (2016) - debut feature made with [[Zack Khalil]], mapping Ojibway history and the Seven Fires Prophecy through a break with documentary convention - `Empty Metal` (2018) - narrative feature co-directed with Bayley Sweitzer, following disaffected characters toward radical, armed revolt - `The Violence of a Civilization Without Secrets` (2017) - video work made with Jackson Polys under New Red Order, staging settler appropriation of Indigenous identity ## Details Studied at Bard College before developing, with his brother Zack, a filmmaking practice that treats documentary conventions — the interview, the archive, the ethnographic frame — as material to be subverted from within rather than simply rejected, drawing on humor and formal rupture to unsettle the genre's historical role in representing (and misrepresenting) Indigenous people. New Red Order, formed with Jackson Polys and Zack Khalil, extends this into a collective, semi-fictional "public secret society" that recruits non-Native "informants" into its own project of Indigenous futurity. ### Concepts and Theories - [[Third Cinema and Socio-political Cinema]] - decolonial, anticolonial filmmaking extended into a contemporary Indigenous context ### Creative and Technical Practices %% none yet %% ### Collaborators - [[Zack Khalil]] - brother and primary filmmaking collaborator; co-directed *INAATE/SE/* and other essay films on Ojibway history ### Institutional Affiliations and Associated Movements - New Red Order - core contributor, alongside [[Zack Khalil]] and Jackson Polys; a "public secret society" working with informants and accomplices toward Indigenous futures - Cousins Collective - co-founder ## References ### Primary Sources Bibliography %% none yet %% ### Secondary Sources Bibliography %% none yet %%