Give It Back: Crimes Against Reality

Name: Give It Back: Crimes Against Reality
Start: 2025-10-29T19:00:00-05:00
Location: Arts + Literature Laboratory

Schedule

Wed, 29 Oct, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Arts + Literature Laboratory | Madison, WI

Mills Folly Microcinema will screen two videos made by Indigenous artists, Give It Back: Crimes Against Reality by the collective New Red Order, and Nosferasta: First Bite by Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer on Wednesday, October 29, 2025 at 7:00pm. Suggested donation: $5.00. Doors open at 6:30pm.
Give It Back: Crimes Against Reality | New Red Order | USA | 2024 | 35 minutes
Swerving between branded content, documentary, and a decolonial episode of MTV 'Cribs', the film revolves around a tour of an apartment which has supposedly been "given back" - led by reformed Native American impersonator, and frequent New Red Order collaborator, Jim Fletcher, alongside profiles of real individuals involved with the voluntary return of land to Indigenous peoples, organizations, and tribes. The film continues New Red Order's ongoing research into instances of settlers returning land to Indigenous peoples, a practice that has been growing exponentially over the past decade. The film features examples of land return from the City of Oakland to the Sogorea Te' Land Trust; the City of Eureka, California to the Wiyot Tribe; Yale Union to the Native Artist and Cultures Foundation in Portland, Oregon; and Christine Sleeter's return of her inheritance to the Ute Indian Tribe in Utah.
Nosferasta: First Bite | Adam Khalil, Bayley Sweitzer | USA | 2021 | 34 minutes
Spanning 500 years of colonial destruction, Nosferasta tells the story of Oba, a Rastafarian vampire, and Christopher Columbus, Oba’s original biter, as they spread the colonial infection throughout the “new world.” Formally a vampire film and series of installations, the stylistically impressionistic Nosferasta examines the guilt of being complicit in imperial conquest, while also acknowledging the difficulty of unlearning centuries of vampiric conditioning. At its core Nosferasta asks, how can you decolonize what’s in your blood?
Descriptions: Video Data Bank.
ABOUT MILLS FOLLY MICROCINEMA
Mills Folly Microcinema showcases nationally recognized experimental film and video art from the festival and microcinema circuit. We network with regional filmmakers and organizations to bring filmmakers and guest programmers to Madison for screenings. And we incubate local experimental filmmaking by providing screen time at Project Projection events.
Mills Folly Microcinema programming is made possible by support from Dane Arts; Madison Arts Commission with additional funds from Wisconsin Arts Board. Additional funds also provided by Endres Manufacturing Company Foundation, the Evjue Foundation, Inc., charitable arm of The Capital Times, the W. Jerome Frautschi Foundation, and the Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation. Support also provided by a generous anonymous donor.