Cinetracts '20

Cinetracts '20

A global portrait documenting the year's events, Cinetracts '20 features the work of an international lineup of 20 filmmakers. Capturing the...

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maɬni—towards the ocean, towards the shore

maɬni—towards the ocean, towards the shore

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...

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Electric Snakes

Electric Snakes

In Electric Snakes, Adrian C. Louis’s thirteenth poetry collection, no one is spared his critical eye, including himself. These powerful and often...

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Anti-Objects, or Space Without Path or Boundary

Anti-Objects, or Space Without Path or Boundary

The title of this video, taken from the texts of the architect Kengo Kuma, suggests a way of looking at everything as “interconnected and...

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Trade

Trade

A deal between two men threatens to unravel as tensions rise in this contemporary look at Indigenous language and culture.

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Dislocation Blues

Dislocation Blues

Filmed during the 2016 Standing Rock protests in South Dakota, Sky Hopinka's Dislocation Blues offers a portrait of the movement and its water...

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Sunflower Siege Engine

Sunflower Siege Engine

Moments of resistance are collapsed and woven together; from documentation of the Indigenous led occupation of Alcatraz, to the reclamation of...

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Fainting Spells

Fainting Spells

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

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Wawa

Wawa

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

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Jáaji Approx.

Jáaji Approx.

Against landscapes that the artist and his father traversed, audio of the father in the Ho-Chunk language is transcribed using the International...

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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

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

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Lore

Lore

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...

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Dreaming In The Dark

Dreaming In The Dark

For Dreaming the Dark: hands that see, eyes that touch, Ana Vaz invited artists and filmmakers whose work trust cinema’s capacity to transform...

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Powwow People

Powwow People

Powwow People is a portrait of a powwow and its participants.

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Kunįkága Remembers Red Banks, Kunįkága Remembers the Welcome Song

Kunįkága Remembers Red Banks, Kunįkága Remembers the Welcome Song

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...

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In Dreams and Autumn

In Dreams and Autumn

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...

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Venite et Loquamur

Venite et Loquamur

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...

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Visions of an Island

Visions of an Island

An Unangam Tunuu elder describes cliffs and summits, drifting birds, and deserted shores. A group of students and teachers play and invent games...

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The Island Weights

The Island Weights

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, the...

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Mnemonics of Shape and Reason

Mnemonics of Shape and Reason

“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...

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