Sky Hopinka

Sky Hopinka

Рождение : 1984-01-01, Ferndale, Washington, USA

История

Sky Hopinka is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee in film, video, and new genres. He is learning his tribal heritage language, Hočak, and working on various video projects that stem from ideas of contemporary indigenous linguistic concepts, identity, and representational imagery.

Профиль

Sky Hopinka

Фильмы

Sunflower Siege Engine
Producer
Moments of resistance are collapsed and woven together; from documentation of the Indigenous led occupation of Alcatraz, to the reclamation of Cahokia and the repatriation of the ancestors, to one’s reflections on their body as they exist in the world today, These are gestures that meditate on the carceral inception and nature of the reservation system, and where sovereignty and belligerence intersect and diverge.
Sunflower Siege Engine
Writer
Moments of resistance are collapsed and woven together; from documentation of the Indigenous led occupation of Alcatraz, to the reclamation of Cahokia and the repatriation of the ancestors, to one’s reflections on their body as they exist in the world today, These are gestures that meditate on the carceral inception and nature of the reservation system, and where sovereignty and belligerence intersect and diverge.
Sunflower Siege Engine
Director
Moments of resistance are collapsed and woven together; from documentation of the Indigenous led occupation of Alcatraz, to the reclamation of Cahokia and the repatriation of the ancestors, to one’s reflections on their body as they exist in the world today, These are gestures that meditate on the carceral inception and nature of the reservation system, and where sovereignty and belligerence intersect and diverge.
Deerfoot of the Diamond
Louis Sockalexis (voice)
In late 2021, Cleveland’s baseball team was reborn as the Guardians. The documentary, directed by Lance Edmands, chronicles the saga of that name change, which has its roots in a forgotten legend named Louis Sockalexis, and the tragedy that enveloped his story more than a century ago.
Kicking the Clouds
Director
An experimental documentary, Kicking the Clouds is centered on a 50-year-old cassette tape of a Pechanga language lesson between the director’s grandmother and great-grandmother, and contextualized by an interview with his mother in his Pacific Northwest hometown.
Mnemonics of Shape and Reason
Director
“Hopinka’s video Mnemonics of Shape and Reason (2021) traverses the memory of a place and space visited by the artist. Employing an original syntax of storytelling, the artist interweaves scattered and reassembled landscapes with layers of captured audio, poetic text, and music. A rhythmic account of the spiritual implications of colonial plunder, Hopinka’s fluid reflections transmute ideas of spiritual malleability tied to land, sky, sea, myth, place, and personhood.”
Молъни — к океану, к берегу
Sound
Снятый представителем коренного народа США хо-чанк поэтический экспериментальный документальный фильм, в центре которого — миф о происхождении смерти у индейцев чинук. Джордан и Свитвотер скоро станут родителями. Беседуя с ними (преимущественно на языке чинук-вава) и путешествуя по лесам Тихоокеанского Северо-Запада, Скай Хопинка погружается не только в их повседневную жизнь в американском обществе, но и в мир духов — зачарованный загадкой смерти и перерождения.
Молъни — к океану, к берегу
Editor
Снятый представителем коренного народа США хо-чанк поэтический экспериментальный документальный фильм, в центре которого — миф о происхождении смерти у индейцев чинук. Джордан и Свитвотер скоро станут родителями. Беседуя с ними (преимущественно на языке чинук-вава) и путешествуя по лесам Тихоокеанского Северо-Запада, Скай Хопинка погружается не только в их повседневную жизнь в американском обществе, но и в мир духов — зачарованный загадкой смерти и перерождения.
Молъни — к океану, к берегу
Narrator (voice)
Снятый представителем коренного народа США хо-чанк поэтический экспериментальный документальный фильм, в центре которого — миф о происхождении смерти у индейцев чинук. Джордан и Свитвотер скоро станут родителями. Беседуя с ними (преимущественно на языке чинук-вава) и путешествуя по лесам Тихоокеанского Северо-Запада, Скай Хопинка погружается не только в их повседневную жизнь в американском обществе, но и в мир духов — зачарованный загадкой смерти и перерождения.
Молъни — к океану, к берегу
Director of Photography
Снятый представителем коренного народа США хо-чанк поэтический экспериментальный документальный фильм, в центре которого — миф о происхождении смерти у индейцев чинук. Джордан и Свитвотер скоро станут родителями. Беседуя с ними (преимущественно на языке чинук-вава) и путешествуя по лесам Тихоокеанского Северо-Запада, Скай Хопинка погружается не только в их повседневную жизнь в американском обществе, но и в мир духов — зачарованный загадкой смерти и перерождения.
Молъни — к океану, к берегу
Producer
Снятый представителем коренного народа США хо-чанк поэтический экспериментальный документальный фильм, в центре которого — миф о происхождении смерти у индейцев чинук. Джордан и Свитвотер скоро станут родителями. Беседуя с ними (преимущественно на языке чинук-вава) и путешествуя по лесам Тихоокеанского Северо-Запада, Скай Хопинка погружается не только в их повседневную жизнь в американском обществе, но и в мир духов — зачарованный загадкой смерти и перерождения.
Молъни — к океану, к берегу
Writer
Снятый представителем коренного народа США хо-чанк поэтический экспериментальный документальный фильм, в центре которого — миф о происхождении смерти у индейцев чинук. Джордан и Свитвотер скоро станут родителями. Беседуя с ними (преимущественно на языке чинук-вава) и путешествуя по лесам Тихоокеанского Северо-Запада, Скай Хопинка погружается не только в их повседневную жизнь в американском обществе, но и в мир духов — зачарованный загадкой смерти и перерождения.
Молъни — к океану, к берегу
Director
Снятый представителем коренного народа США хо-чанк поэтический экспериментальный документальный фильм, в центре которого — миф о происхождении смерти у индейцев чинук. Джордан и Свитвотер скоро станут родителями. Беседуя с ними (преимущественно на языке чинук-вава) и путешествуя по лесам Тихоокеанского Северо-Запада, Скай Хопинка погружается не только в их повседневную жизнь в американском обществе, но и в мир духов — зачарованный загадкой смерти и перерождения.
In Dreams and Autumn
Director
The last piece in the constellation of works including Kicking the Clouds, Mnemonics of Shape and Reason, and the text Hello Trouble as well as a series of etched photographs. A letter to a sibling, reflecting on our pasts and ourselves, and the parents and grandparents we knew and could never know. Told in three channels, the voices and the texts overlap and are distant, where a return to the road is a return to solitude as the memories of our grandmothers shape a present loneliness and a gathering of futures.
Lore
Editor
Images of landscapes are cut and fragmented, as a hand guides their shape and construction. The voice tells a story about a not too distant past, and elements of nostalgia are assembled in terms of lore.
Lore
Director of Photography
Images of landscapes are cut and fragmented, as a hand guides their shape and construction. The voice tells a story about a not too distant past, and elements of nostalgia are assembled in terms of lore.
Lore
Writer
Images of landscapes are cut and fragmented, as a hand guides their shape and construction. The voice tells a story about a not too distant past, and elements of nostalgia are assembled in terms of lore.
Lore
Director
Images of landscapes are cut and fragmented, as a hand guides their shape and construction. The voice tells a story about a not too distant past, and elements of nostalgia are assembled in terms of lore.
Cinetracts '20
Director
A global portrait documenting the year's events, Cinetracts '20 features the work of an international lineup of 20 filmmakers. Capturing the zeitgeist in their own backyard, the artists' short films are the culmination of a year-long residency project.
When you're lost in the rain
Director
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 images of landscapes and movement. In the song, a stranger's listlessness and exhaustion are woven through and around Juarez, Mexico, and so, too, are these stories woven around original discontent and uncertainty as they move through an uneasy negotiation with the strangeness of the American pioneer spirit.
Cloudless Blue Egress of Summer
Director
An exploration of Fort Marion, the US fort where Native American prisoners of war were placed.
Electric Snakes
Director
In Electric Snakes, Adrian C. Louis’s thirteenth poetry collection, no one is spared his critical eye, including himself. These powerful and often humorous poems cover myriad subjects: Trump, music, zombies, Jimmy John’s, childhood, caller ID, venetian blinds, magpies, love, and Mom.
Fainting Spells
Writer
Told through recollections of youth, learning, lore, and departure, this is an imagined myth for the Xąwįska, or the Indian Pipe Plant - used by the Ho-Chunk to revive those who have fainted.
Fainting Spells
Director
Told through recollections of youth, learning, lore, and departure, this is an imagined myth for the Xąwįska, or the Indian Pipe Plant - used by the Ho-Chunk to revive those who have fainted.
Dreaming In The Dark
Director
For Dreaming the Dark: hands that see, eyes that touch, Ana Vaz invited artists and filmmakers whose work trust cinema’s capacity to transform relationships between the body and the camera to propose works that will engage with both perception and embodiment. Could cinema be an art of embodiment? By what rituals and actions could vision become tactile?
Dislocation Blues
Director
Filmed during the 2016 Standing Rock protests in South Dakota, Sky Hopinka's Dislocation Blues offers a portrait of the movement and its water protectors, refuting grand narratives and myth-making in favour of individual testimonials.
Ouroboros
Voiceover
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 both end and beginning: death as regeneration. A 74-minute experimental narrative film that turns the destruction of Gaza into a story of heartbreak, Ouroboros asks what it means to be human when humanity has failed. Taking the form of a love story, the film's central character is Diego Marcon, a man who embarks on a circular journey to shed his pain only to experience it, again and again. In the course of a single day, his travel fuses together Native American territories, the ancient Italian city of Matera, a castle in Brittany, and the ruins of the Gaza Strip into a single landscape.
Anti-Objects, or Space Without Path or Boundary
Director of Photography
The title of this video, taken from the texts of the architect Kengo Kuma, suggests a way of looking at everything as “interconnected and intertwined” - such as the historical and the present and the tool and the artifact. Images and representations of two structures in the Portland Metropolitan Area that have direct and complicated connections to the Chinookan people who inhabit(ed) the land are woven with audio tapes of one of the last speakers of chinuk wawa, the Chinookan creole. These localities of matter resist their reduction into objects, and call anew for space and time given to wandering as a deliberate act, and the empowerment of shared utility.
Anti-Objects, or Space Without Path or Boundary
Sound Designer
The title of this video, taken from the texts of the architect Kengo Kuma, suggests a way of looking at everything as “interconnected and intertwined” - such as the historical and the present and the tool and the artifact. Images and representations of two structures in the Portland Metropolitan Area that have direct and complicated connections to the Chinookan people who inhabit(ed) the land are woven with audio tapes of one of the last speakers of chinuk wawa, the Chinookan creole. These localities of matter resist their reduction into objects, and call anew for space and time given to wandering as a deliberate act, and the empowerment of shared utility.
Anti-Objects, or Space Without Path or Boundary
Editor
The title of this video, taken from the texts of the architect Kengo Kuma, suggests a way of looking at everything as “interconnected and intertwined” - such as the historical and the present and the tool and the artifact. Images and representations of two structures in the Portland Metropolitan Area that have direct and complicated connections to the Chinookan people who inhabit(ed) the land are woven with audio tapes of one of the last speakers of chinuk wawa, the Chinookan creole. These localities of matter resist their reduction into objects, and call anew for space and time given to wandering as a deliberate act, and the empowerment of shared utility.
Anti-Objects, or Space Without Path or Boundary
Director
The title of this video, taken from the texts of the architect Kengo Kuma, suggests a way of looking at everything as “interconnected and intertwined” - such as the historical and the present and the tool and the artifact. Images and representations of two structures in the Portland Metropolitan Area that have direct and complicated connections to the Chinookan people who inhabit(ed) the land are woven with audio tapes of one of the last speakers of chinuk wawa, the Chinookan creole. These localities of matter resist their reduction into objects, and call anew for space and time given to wandering as a deliberate act, and the empowerment of shared utility.
I'll Remember You as You Were, Not as What You'll Become
Director
Texts and performances by the late Indigenous poet Diane Burns bind Sky Hopinka’s dazzling and mysterious blend of original and found sources, which continues the filmmaker’s exploration of language, storytelling, and transcendent ways of seeing.
Visions of an Island
Director
An Unangam Tunuu elder describes cliffs and summits, drifting birds, and deserted shores. A group of students and teachers play and invent games revitalizing their language. A visitor wanders in a quixotic chronicling of earthly and supernal terrain. These visions offer glimpses of an island in the center of the Bering Sea.
Venite et Loquamur
Director
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 and I participate while navigating the errata with my camera.
Jáaji Approx.
Director of Photography
Against landscapes that the artist and his father traversed, audio of the father in the Ho-Chunk language is transcribed using the International Phonetic Alphabet, which tapers off, narrowing the distance between recorder and recordings, new and traditional, memory and song.
Jáaji Approx.
Writer
Against landscapes that the artist and his father traversed, audio of the father in the Ho-Chunk language is transcribed using the International Phonetic Alphabet, which tapers off, narrowing the distance between recorder and recordings, new and traditional, memory and song.
Jáaji Approx.
Editor
Against landscapes that the artist and his father traversed, audio of the father in the Ho-Chunk language is transcribed using the International Phonetic Alphabet, which tapers off, narrowing the distance between recorder and recordings, new and traditional, memory and song.
Jáaji Approx.
Director
Against landscapes that the artist and his father traversed, audio of the father in the Ho-Chunk language is transcribed using the International Phonetic Alphabet, which tapers off, narrowing the distance between recorder and recordings, new and traditional, memory and song.
Wawa
Director
Featuring speakers of Chinuk Wawa, an Indigenous language from the Pacific Northwest, WAWA begins slowly, patterning various forms of documentary and ethnography. Quickly, the patterns tangle and become confused and commingled, while translating and transmuting ideas of cultural identity, language, and history.
Kunįkága Remembers Red Banks, Kunįkága Remembers the Welcome Song
Director
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 near present day Green Bay, WI was also the site of Jean Nicolet’s landing, who in 1634 was the first European what is today Wisconsin. Images and text are used to explore this space alongside my grandmother’s recollections. Each serve as representations of personal and shared memory, as well as representations of practices and processes of remembrance.