Sky Hopinka: Redefining potential territories
In a consciously fragmentary film, Cleo Keahna and Terry Running Wild share their perspectives on the resistance movement at Standing Rock.
DISLOCATION BLUES
- Sky Hopinka
- 2017
- United States
- 17 min
Sky Hopinka: Redefining potential territories
Through this experimental short film and densely wrought sensory experience, we are exposed to a myth imagined for Xawiska, a plant used by the Ho-Chunk to recover from a fainting spell.
FAINTING SPELLS
- Sky Hopinka
- 2018
- United States
- 11 min
Sky Hopinka: Redefining potential territories
A meditation on death and reincarnation, this visually and sonically rich film stands as a compelling tribute to Indigenous poet Diane Burns.
I'LL REMEMBER YOU AS YOU WERE NOT AS WHAT YOU'LL BECOME
- Sky Hopinka
- 2016
- United States
- 13 min
Sky Hopinka: Redefining potential territories
On the winding road of a father-son relationship, this personal short weaves a timeless dialogue between the two, narrowing the distance separating them.
JÁAJI APPROX.
- Sky Hopinka
- 2015
- United States
- 8 min
Sky Hopinka: Redefining potential territories
Perspectives, images, music, poetry, and personal stories are layered and intertwined in a complex reflection on traditions and possible futures.
JUST A SOUL RESPONDING
- Sky Hopinka
- 2023
- United States
- 17 min
Sky Hopinka: Redefining potential territories
In this touching intergenerational story, the filmmaker’s great-grandmother giving a language lesson to his grandmother in 1972 is a starting point that sparks reflection around knowledge transmission.
KICKING THE CLOUDS
- Sky Hopinka
- 2021
- United States
- 16 min
Sky Hopinka: Redefining potential territories
Inspired by Hollis Frampton’s experimental work Nostalgia, this film plays with notions of sharing traditions and knowledge, while an overhead projector displays fragmented landscapes.
LORE
- Sky Hopinka
- 2019
- United States
- 11 min
Sky Hopinka: Redefining potential territories
With an inspired artistic vision, this feature film spoken mainly in Chinuk Wawa follows the thoughts and wanderings of Sweetwater Sahme and Jordan Mercier.
MAɬNI – TOWARDS THE OCEAN, TOWARDS THE SHORE
- Sky Hopinka
- 2020
- United States
- s.t. English
- 80 min
Sky Hopinka: Redefining potential territories
Using archival footage of the Indigenous-led occupation of Alcatraz, Sunflower Siege Engine reminds us that the battle for sovereignty is ongoing.
SUNFLOWER SIEGE ENGINE
- Sky Hopinka
- 2022
- United States
- 13 min
Sky Hopinka: Redefining potential territories
The tension of colonial America is conveyed through the juxtaposition of moving images, a reflection on identity and belonging, and a poem by Walt Whitman.
WHEN YOU'RE LOST IN THE RAIN
- Sky Hopinka
- 2018
- United States
- 6 min