Sky Hopinka Filmes

  • 2014
    Wawa

    Wawa

    Wawa

    42014HD

    Featuring speakers of Chinuk Wawa, an Indigenous language from the Pacific Northwest, WAWA begins slowly, patterning various forms of documentary and...

    Wawa
  • 2017
    Ouroboros

    Ouroboros

    Ouroboros

    52017HD

    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...

    Ouroboros
  • 2021
    In Dreams and Autumn

    In Dreams and Autumn

    In Dreams and Autumn

    02021HD

    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...

    In Dreams and Autumn
  • 2015
    Venite et Loquamur

    Venite et Loquamur

    Venite et Loquamur

    52015HD

    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...

    Venite et Loquamur
  • 2015
    Kunįkága Remembers Red Banks, Kunįkága Remembers the Welcome Song

    Kunįkága Remembers Red Banks, Kunįkága Remembers the Welcome Song

    Kunįkága Remembers Red Banks, Kunįkága Remembers the Welcome Song

    62015HD

    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...

    Kunįkága Remembers Red Banks, Kunįkága Remembers the Welcome Song
  • 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 Become

    I'll Remember You as You Were, Not as What You'll Become

    5.52016HD

    Texts and performances by the late Indigenous poet Diane Burns bind Sky Hopinka’s dazzling and mysterious blend of original and found sources,...

    I'll Remember You as You Were, Not as What You'll Become
  • 2018
    Fainting Spells

    Fainting Spells

    Fainting Spells

    5.52018HD

    Told through recollections of youth, learning, lore, and departure, this is an imagined myth for the Xąwįska, or the Indian Pipe Plant -...

    Fainting Spells
  • 2022
    Kicking the Clouds

    Kicking the Clouds

    Kicking the Clouds

    02022HD

    An experimental documentary, Kicking the Clouds is centered on a 50-year-old cassette tape of a Pechanga language lesson between the director’s...

    Kicking the Clouds