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A couple weeks ago, I (Devika) visited the Artists Space gallery in downtown Manhattan to check out the ongoing exhibit, "Feel at Home Here," by New Red Order\u2014a \u201cpublic secret society\u201d with rotating members who creates exhibitions, videos, and performances that question and re-channel our relationships to indigeneity. As I walked into the gallery, the lobby welcomed me with an assortment of marketing paraphernalia: a poster advertised \u201cSavage Philosophy\u2122\u201d; a red landline invited me to call a hotline; and a screen played a video of a white man exhorting me to \u201cnever settle\u201d and to realize my "fullest potential\u201d by joining his organization, New Red Order.\xa0\n\nWas this the merchandise section of the gallery? A marketing or recruitment video? Or a parody? I couldn\u2019t quite tell at first.\n\nThis slippage between satire and fact, which constantly reminds us of the all-too-real absurdity of the settler colonial project, is the modus operandi of New Red Order. As I walked further into the exhibit, one wall featured a sardonic timeline of the history of the Improved Order of Red Men, a whites-only political society that New Red Order riffs on subversively. One section of the room was modeled as a real-estate office for \u201cGiving Back\u2122" land. And the centerpiece featured a rotating video installation, which included New Red Order\u2019s ongoing feature-film-slash-recruitment-campaign, Never Settle.\n\nTo dig into the exhibit\u2019s provocative plays with time, futurity, guilt, ownership, and desire, I spoke to New Red Order\u2019s \u201ccore contributors," as they describe themselves: Jackson Polys, Adam Khalil, and Zack Khalil. Today\u2019s podcast presents a short excerpt of our conversation, featuring Adam and Jackson, but look out for the full interview in the Film Comment Letter on Thursday, June 24. \n\nFor show notes, go filmcomment.com/blog/the-film-comment-podcast-new-red-order