Sky Hopinka Movies

  • 2015
    Jáaji Approx.

    Jáaji Approx.

    Jáaji Approx.

    62015HD

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

    Jáaji Approx.
  • 1970
    Powwow People

    Powwow People

    Powwow People

    01970HD

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

    Powwow People
  • 2021
    Mnemonics of Shape and Reason

    Mnemonics of Shape and Reason

    Mnemonics of Shape and Reason

    02021HD

    “Hopinka’s video Mnemonics of Shape and Reason (2021) traverses the memory of a place and space visited by the artist. Employing an...

    Mnemonics of Shape and Reason
  • 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
  • 2017
    Dislocation Blues

    Dislocation Blues

    Dislocation Blues

    5.82017HD

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

    Dislocation Blues