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Sky Hopinka

Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians) is a filmmaker, video artist, and photographer developing new forms of cinema centred around personal positions on Indigenous homeland, language(s), culture and landscape. He has screened at festivals including Sundance, Toronto IFF, Courtisane, Punto de Vista, and New York Film Festival. Exhibitions include Whitney Biennial (2017), FRONT Triennial (2018) and Prospect.5 (2021). He has been guest curator at Whitney Biennial (2019) and participated in Cosmopolis #2 at Centre Pompidou. Solo exhibitions include the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (2020) and LUMA (2022). Most recently, he received the 2022 Infinity Award in Art from the International Center of Photography, and is a 2022 MacArther Fellow.

Filmography

Wawa (2014), Sunflower Siege Engine (2022), In Dreams and Autumn (2021), The Island Weights (2021), Just a Soul Responding (2021), Kicking the Clouds (2021), Mnemonics of Shape and Reason (2021), Here You Are Before the Trees (2020), Cloudless Blue Egress of Summer (2019), Lore (2019), Fainting Spells (3-channel version) (2018), When you’re lost in the rain (2018), Anti-Objects, or Space Without Path or Boundary (2017), Dislocation Blues (2017), I’ll Remember You as You Were, Not as What You’ll Become (2016), Visions of an Island (2016), Jáaji Approx (2015), Venite et Loquamur (2015), Kunįkága Remembers Red Banks, Kunįkága Remembers the Welcome Song (2014)

Friday 8 March, 14:00 • Sunday 10 March, 10:45
Maltings Henry Travers

We Began By Measuring Distance • The Story of Milk and Honey • Home Movies Gaza • Wawa

The first of two screening programmes animating the work of Basma al-Sharif, BFMAF24 Filmmaker in Focus.

Born stateless and of Palestinian heritage, her work explores cyclical political histories and conflicts. In films and installations that move backward and forward in history, between place and non-place, she confronts the legacy of colonialism through satirical, immersive, and lyrical works.

Run Time

89 mins
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21 September 2018
Maltings Henry Travers

Sky Hopinka

Filmmaker Sky Hopinka presents a screening of his short films in conversation with Nicole Yip, Director of LUX Scotland. Based in Milwaukee, Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk/Pechanga) focuses on the interconnections between his indigenous homeland, language, landscapes, and identity. Anchored by both surreal perspectives and grounded realities, Hopinka’s sublime films create maps of dreams and memories, pushing against cultural and personal boundaries, creating meaning where none had existed before.

Hopinka will read from his debut publication Around the Edge of Encircling Lake (2018) and the screening will include:

Kunįkága Remembers Red Banks, Kunįkága Remembers the Welcome Song, 2014, US, 9 mins

Jáaji Approx, 2015, US, 15 mins

I’ll Remember You as You Were, Not as What You’ll Become, 2016, US, 12 mins

Dislocation Blues, 2017, US, 17 mins

Fainting Spells, 2018, US, 12 mins

Special thanks to Ruth Hodgins, Walker Art Center

Run Time

90 mins
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20 September 2018
Coxon’s Tower
European Premiere

Fainting Spells

Fainting Spells • Sky Hopinka

Between the dizzying hallucinatory landscapes and circular images of a lens or porthole, Hopinka takes us to a world of dreams, spirits and myths, revealing the story of Xąwįska, the Indian Pipe Plant used by the Ho-Chunk to revive those who have fainted. With abstracted and inverted images Hopinka moves from an editing station into the landscape, illuminating the sense of losing oneself, of fear and renewal. —Ruth Hodgins

Director

Sky Hopinka

Country

United States

Run Time

11 mins

Year

2018
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