Zack Khalil

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 — and looks towards the future — through the use of innovative nonfiction forms. Khalil is a core contributor to New Red Order, a public-secret society which calls attraction toward Indigeneity into question, yet promotes this desire, and enjoins potential non-Indigenous accomplices to participate in the co-examination and expansion 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 Film Festival, and the experimental documentary short The Violence of a Civilization without Secrets (2018) which premiered at Sundance. 

Khalil is the co-director of Aanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild] (Mountainfilm 2026), alongside Adam Khalil.