# 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 %% A more comprehensive personal reflection and collection of relevant notes, details, references, links %% ### 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 %%