Cinetracts '20
A global portrait documenting the year's events, Cinetracts '20 features the work of an international lineup of 20 filmmakers. Capturing the...
See moremaɬni—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...
See moreElectric Snakes
In Electric Snakes, Adrian C. Louis’s thirteenth poetry collection, no one is spared his critical eye, including himself. These powerful and often...
See moreAnti-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...
See moreTrade
A deal between two men threatens to unravel as tensions rise in this contemporary look at Indigenous language and culture.
See moreDislocation 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...
See moreSunflower Siege Engine
Moments of resistance are collapsed and woven together; from documentation of the Indigenous led occupation of Alcatraz, to the reclamation of...
See moreFainting 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...
See moreWawa
Featuring speakers of Chinuk Wawa, an Indigenous language from the Pacific Northwest, WAWA begins slowly, patterning various forms of documentary...
See moreJáaji Approx.
Against landscapes that the artist and his father traversed, audio of the father in the Ho-Chunk language is transcribed using the International...
See moreI'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...
See moreLore
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...
See moreDreaming 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...
See morePowwow People
Powwow People is a portrait of a powwow and its participants.
See moreKunįkága 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...
See moreIn 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...
See moreVenite 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...
See moreVisions 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...
See moreThe 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...
See moreMnemonics 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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