INAATE/SE + Short Films

Part of the UCLA Film & Television Archive screening series Imagining Indigenous Cinema: New Voices, New Visions. Register at cinema.ucla.edu to attend this in-theater screening.

In-person: Q&A with filmmaker Zack Khalil.

What does a monument signify? Jim Fletcher, “award winning actor,” introduces a surrealist examination of the settler obsession with image-making and institutional collecting.

Animated blueprints, and archival documents and Hawaiian language launch an affecting investigation into the colonial architecture of the occupied Kingdom of Hawai’i.
14 min.

In hyper-saturated faux infomercials, a Pueblo spokesperson hawks increasingly problematic cultural “product lines” for the Freedom Company. A caustic commentary on appropriation, Petyr Xyst’s award-winning short dissects the fictitious consequences of putting Indigenous culture up for sale.

13 min.

An ambitious first feature by Adam and Zack Khalil, INAATE/SE summons the violent discord of colonization into a documentary narrative that decomposes into dissonant elucidations on the Seven Fires Prophecy as it relates to their own Ojibway community of Sault Ste. Marie. This early work introduces the critique of museum culture and settler-colonial imperialism, thematically present throughout their subsequent work. This screening kicks off a weekend of programming featuring work made by the Khalils and collaborators.