Sky Hopinka Movies
- 2022
Deerfoot of the Diamond
Deerfoot of the Diamond102022HD
In late 2021, Cleveland’s baseball team was reborn as the Guardians. This documentary, directed by Lance Edmands, chronicles the saga of that...
- 2021
maɬni—towards the ocean, towards the shore
maɬni—towards the ocean, towards the shore52021HD
An experimental look at the origin of the death myth of the Chinookan people in the Pacific Northwest, following two people as they navigate their...
- 2017
Ouroboros
Ouroboros52017HD
This film is an homage to the Gaza Strip and to the possibility of hope beyond hopelessness. Ouroboros, the symbol of the snake eating its tail, is...
- 2015
Jáaji Approx.
Jáaji Approx.62015HD
Against landscapes that the artist and his father traversed, audio of the father in the Ho-Chunk language is transcribed using the International...
- 2017
Dislocation Blues
Dislocation Blues5.82017HD
Filmed during the 2016 Standing Rock protests in South Dakota, Sky Hopinka's Dislocation Blues offers a portrait of the movement and its water...
- 2019
When you're lost in the rain
When you're lost in the rain02019HD
In this video drawing from Bob Dylan's song "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues," layers of experiences circling loss and longing are overlaid between...
- 2021
Mnemonics of Shape and Reason
Mnemonics of Shape and Reason02021HD
“Hopinka’s video Mnemonics of Shape and Reason (2021) traverses the memory of a place and space visited by the artist. Employing an...
- 2018
Dreaming In The Dark
Dreaming In The Dark02018HD
For Dreaming the Dark: hands that see, eyes that touch, Ana Vaz invited artists and filmmakers whose work trust cinema’s capacity to transform...
- 2020
Cinetracts '20
Cinetracts '2062020HD
A global portrait documenting the year's events, Cinetracts '20 features the work of an international lineup of 20 filmmakers. Capturing the...
- 2017
Anti-Objects, or Space Without Path or Boundary
Anti-Objects, or Space Without Path or Boundary72017HD
The title of this video, taken from the texts of the architect Kengo Kuma, suggests a way of looking at everything as “interconnected and...
- 2019
Cloudless Blue Egress of Summer
Cloudless Blue Egress of Summer02019HD
An exploration of Fort Marion, the US fort where Native American prisoners of war were placed.
- 1970
Powwow People
Powwow People01970HD
Powwow People is a portrait of a powwow and its participants.
- 2015
Visions of an Island
Visions of an Island52015HD
An Unangam Tunuu elder describes cliffs and summits, drifting birds, and deserted shores. A group of students and teachers play and invent games...
- 2015
Venite et Loquamur
Venite et Loquamur52015HD
A group of students and teachers gather in an historical mansion in the woods of West Virginia for a week-long retreat in spoken Latin. I observe...
- 2015
Kunįkága Remembers Red Banks, Kunįkága Remembers the Welcome Song
Kunįkága Remembers Red Banks, Kunįkága Remembers the Welcome Song62015HD
The video traverses the history and the memory of a place shared by both the Ho-Chunk and the settler. Red Banks, a pre-contact Ho-Chunk village site...
- 2021
The Island Weights
The Island Weights02021HD
This film is based on the tale of the four water spirits known as Island Weights. In the creation story of Ho-Chunk, the artist’s home nation,...
- 2016
I'll Remember You as You Were, Not as What You'll Become
I'll Remember You as You Were, Not as What You'll Become5.52016HD
Texts and performances by the late Indigenous poet Diane Burns bind Sky Hopinka’s dazzling and mysterious blend of original and found sources,...
- 2013
Trade
Trade02013HD
A deal between two men threatens to unravel as tensions rise in this contemporary look at Indigenous language and culture.
- 2022
Kicking the Clouds
Kicking the Clouds02022HD
An experimental documentary, Kicking the Clouds is centered on a 50-year-old cassette tape of a Pechanga language lesson between the director’s...
- 2019
Electric Snakes
Electric Snakes02019HD
In Electric Snakes, Adrian C. Louis’s thirteenth poetry collection, no one is spared his critical eye, including himself. These powerful and...