Sky Hopinka Movies
- 2013

Trade
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A deal between two men threatens to unravel as tensions rise in this contemporary look at Indigenous language and culture.
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- 2021

The Island Weights
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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,...
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- 2021

In Dreams and Autumn
In Dreams and Autumn02021HD
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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- 2015

Venite et Loquamur
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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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- 2015

Kunįkága Remembers Red Banks, Kunįkága Remembers the Welcome Song
Kunįkága Remembers Red Banks, Kunįkága Remembers the Welcome Song62015HD
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...
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- 1970

He Who Wears Faces on His Ears
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He Who Wears Faces on His Ears, Sky Hopinka (2025) The piece moves through Indigenous mythologies and the ways they echo across present-day...
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- 1970

When I Was a Waterfall
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Examines evolving regional traditions in country/Americana music across Oklahoma, Texas, Washington, and Louisiana.
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- 2023

Sunflower Siege Engine
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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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- 2015

Visions of an Island
Visions of an Island52015HD
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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