Adam Khalil

Adam Khalil Trailers

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Adam Khalil, a member of the Ojibway tribe, is a filmmaker and artist from Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, whose practice attempts to subvert traditional forms of ethnography through humor, relation, and transgression. Khalil is a core contributor to New Red Order and a co-founder of COUSINS Collective.

Most Popular Adam Khalil Trailers

Total trailers found: 21

Halpate Trailer (2020)

01 October 2020

Considered a staple of Florida tourism, alligator wrestling has been performed by members of the Seminole Tribe for over a century.

A I O U Trailer (2020)

01 February 2020

The distant future. An orbital facility of unknown origin. Here, the debt of taking a life will finally be repaid.

Nosferasta: First Bite Trailer (2021)

06 October 2021

a Rastafarian vampire film starring and co-written by Oba, an artist and musician based in Brooklyn. Spanning 500 years of colonial destruction, human trafficking and blood sucking, the film reimagines Oba’s origin story.

Culture Capture 001 Trailer (2018)

01 January 2018

The looped work Culture Capture 001 takes place within the same museum as seen in NRO’s previous video.

Culture Capture: Terminal Adddition Trailer (2019)

11 April 2019

Half tongue-in-cheek absurdism and half deadly earnest, CULTURE CAPTURE: TERMINAL ADDDITION continues the New Red Order’s ongoing project of “culture capture,” recruiting viewers to participate in a program of practical strategies to counter the “salvage mindset,” which sets aside Indigenous culture and sovereignty by consigning it to the past.

Never Settle: Calling In Trailer (2020)

01 October 2020

New Red Order Recruitment Video

Never Settle: The New Red Order Trailer (2020)

17 November 2020

This promotional initiation video lures inductees with promises of decolonization and settler remediation.

Culture Capture: Crimes Against Reality Trailer (2020)

01 October 2020

Culture Capture: Crimes Against Reality morphs monuments into metastasizing flesh via ritualized photogrammetric capture and virtual manipulation, clearing space for Indigenous futures.

The Given Trailer (2015)

01 April 2015

An actress living in New York performs an audition, then goes to meditation and winds up at a party of artists viewing a film.

AlienNATION [star spangled] Trailer (2022)

25 June 2022

A welcome as warning, AlienNATION [star spangled], asks viewers if they’ve ever wondered how to be here? How to leave? How to arrive? Then presents an eerie, guilt ridden, yet self-congratulatory stew of televised recordings of public apologies to Indigenous peoples from the heads of state of settler-colonial nations around the globe.

What is Savage Philosophy Trailer (2021)

01 January 2021

A video which introduces potential NRO informants and accomplices to the concept of Savage PhilosophyTM, which asserts that signs have a real and physical connection with things, that signs take part in things instead of taking their place.

Endless Acknowledgment Trailer (2021)

16 June 2021

Efforts to “decolonize” institutions are embodied in ritual acts of acknowledging Indigenous presence and claims to territory.

Aanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild] Trailer (2026)

26 January 2026

Trapped in museum archives, Ancestors bend time and space to find their way home. History, spirituality, and the law collide as tribal repatriation specialists fight to return and rebury Indigenous human remains, offering a revealing look at the still-pervasive worldviews that justified collecting them in the first place.

INAATE/SE/ Trailer (2016)

29 February 2016

INAATE/SE/ re-imagines an ancient Ojibway story, the Seven Fires Prophecy, which both predates and predicts first contact with Europeans.

The Violence of a Civilization without Secrets Trailer (2018)

19 January 2018

An urgent reflection on indigenous sovereignty, the undead violence of museum archives, and postmortem justice through the case of the "Kennewick Man," a prehistoric Paleo-American man whose remains were found in Kennewick, Washington, in 1996.

The Communist Revolution Was Caused By The Sun Trailer (2015)

28 July 2015

The second installment of Anton Vidokle’s trilogy on Russian cosmism, The Communist Revolution Was Caused By The Sun, looks at the poetic dimension of the solar cosmology of Soviet biophysicist Alexander Chizhevsky.

Empty Metal Trailer (2018)

06 May 2018

Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer’s first feature as co-directors, Empty Metal takes place in a world similar to ours—one of mass surveillance, pervasive policing, and increasing individual apathy.

Immortality and Resurrection For All! Trailer (2017)

01 September 2017

The last film in Vidokle's trilogy on Cosmism is a meditation on the museum as the site of resurrection-a central idea for many Cosmist thinkers, scientists and avant-garde artists.

Burial Trailer (2022)

15 April 2022

With striking images and meticulous sound work, Burial reminds us of the paradoxical relationship between scientific development and the destruction of nature.

Blue Communiqué Trailer (2020)

24 August 2020

In this moment when the believability of our reality continues to stretch - blue people are hoping to enter into our reality environment.

Another Day Without a Future, But What the Hell Another Day... Trailer (2012)

14 July 2012

An experimental docufiction created with Johnny Rodrigo aka 'Mayor of the block'