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Adam Khalil

Adam Khalil (Ojibway)  is a filmmaker and artist whose practice attempts to subvert traditional forms of image-making through humor, relation, and transgression. Khalil is a core contributor to New Red Order and a co-founder of COUSINS Collective as well as a frequent collaborator with Zack Khalil, Bayley Sweitzer and more. Khalil’s work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, Sundance Film Festival, Walker Arts Center, Lincoln Center, Tate Modern, HKW, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Toronto Biennial 2019 and Whitney Biennial 2019, among other institutions. Khalil is the recipient of various fellowships and grants, including but not limited to a Herb Alpert Award in the Arts 2021, Creative Capital Award, Sundance Art of Nonfiction, Jerome Artist Fellowship, Cinereach and the Gates Millennium Scholarship.

Adam Khalil is a core contributor to the public secret society New Red Order.


Available Titles by Adam Khalil

Title Year Runtime Collection
A I O U 2019 00:29:38 Single Titles
Blue Communiqué 2022 00:15:04 Single Titles
Empty Metal 2018 01:24:21 Single Titles
Halpate 2020 00:14:13 Single Titles
INAATE/SE/ [it shines a certain way. to a certain place/it flies. falls./] 2016 01:08:28 Single Titles
Nosferasta: First Bite 2021 00:33:42 Single Titles
The Violence of a Civilization Without Secrets 2017 00:09:45 Single Titles

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LETTING IT SEEP IN:: Ojibwe Filmmaking Duo Adam and Zack Khalil Discuss Political Filmmaking as Covert Ops
The Radical Unreal: Fabulation and Fantasy in Speculative Documentary
ADAM & ZACK KHALIL with Leo Goldsmith
The Violence Inherent: Native Videographers Shoot Back
Adam & Zack Khalil
In a Riveting Film, Telepathic Revolutionaries and a Brooklyn Noise Band Avenge Racist Murders
“DIY or Die”: Brooklynites Face the Apocalypse in Empty Metal
Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer’s Film ‘Empty Metal’ Captures A Revolutionary Spirit at the World’s End

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