Sharjah Art Foundation

Sharjah Biennial 16

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
6 Febuary — 15 June 2025

INAATE/SE/ [it shines a certain way. to a certain place./it flies. falls./] (2016)

Adam Khalil and Zack Khalil
INAATE/SE/ [it shines a certain way. to a certain place./it flies. falls./]
2016
Digital video, colour, sound
72 minutes
Courtesy of the artist

Overview

Adam Khalil and Zack Khalil’s debut film re-imagines the Seven Fires Prophecy, an Anishinaabe prophecy predicting their first contact with Europeans. Blending documentary, narrative and experimental forms, INAATE/SE/ (2016) explores the cross-generational resonance of the prophecy within the directors’ Indigenous community on the Michigan/Canadian border. With acute geographic specificity and grand historical scope, the film fixes its lens between the sacred and the profane to pry open the construction of contemporary Indigenous identity.

Screening and Booking Information

INAATE/SE/ [it shines a certain way. to a certain place./it flies. falls./] (2016)
Directors: Adam Khalil and Zack Khalil
United States
Experimental | 72 minutes
English with Arabic subtitles

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