Zack Khalil, a member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, is a filmmaker and artist whose work centers Indigenous narratives in the present while looking toward the future through innovative nonfiction forms. Khalil is a core contributor to New Red Order, a public-secret society that interrogates and complicates attraction to indigeneity while inviting non-Indigenous accomplices into a shared examination of Indigenous agency.
Khalil is the co-director and co-editor of the feature documentary INAATE/SE/ [it shines a certain way. to a certain place./ it flies. falls./] (2016), which premiered as the closing night film of the Museum of Modern Art’s Doc Fortnight, and the experimental documentary short THE VIOLENCE OF A CIVILIZATION WITHOUT SECRETS (2018), which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. He also works as a video editor, most recently co-editing Alison O’Daniel’s feature film THE TUBA THIEVES (2023), which premiered at Sundance.
His work has been exhibited and screened at the Museum of Modern Art, Sundance Film Festival, New York Film Festival, CPH:DOX, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Walker Art Center, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Creative Time, Toronto Biennial 2019, Whitney Biennial 2019, the 59th Venice Biennale, Sharjah Biennial 15, and Counterpublic Triennial 2023, among other institutions. He is the recipient of fellowships and grants including a Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, a United States Artists Fellowship, Sundance Art of Nonfiction, and the Gates Millennium Scholarship.