Images of landscapes fluctuate between realism and the bright colours of lush, multi-layered artistic effects, while handwritten words scroll across the screen. We are exposed to a myth imagined for Xawiska, a medicinal plant also known as Indian Pipe Plant or monotropa uniflora, used by the Ho-Chunk to recover from a fainting spell. This experimental short film is a densely wrought sensory experience akin to meditation. (HSB)
This film is presented as part of the retrospective Sky Hopinka : Redefining Potential Territories.
Fainting Spells
- Country : United States
- Year : 2018
- V.O : English
- Duration : 10 MIN
- Cinematography : Sky Hopinka
- Editing : Sky Hopinka
- Production : Sky Hopinka
- Sound Design : Sky Hopinka
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Anti-Objects, or Space Without Path or Boundary (2017)
Dislocation Blues (2017)
When you're lost in the rain (2018)
Fainting Spells (2018)
Lore (2019)
Cloudless Blue Egress of Summer (2019)
malni – towards the ocean, towards the shore (2020)
Here you are before the trees (2020)
Mnemonics of Shape and Reason (2021)
Kicking the Clouds (2021)
In Dreams and Autumn (2021)
The Island Weights (2021)
Sunflower Siege Engine (2022)
Just a Soul Responding (2023)
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