Sky Hopinka Movies

  • 2019
    Electric Snakes

    Electric Snakes

    Electric Snakes

    02019HD

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

    Electric Snakes
  • 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
  • 2015
    Venite et Loquamur

    Venite et Loquamur

    Venite et Loquamur

    52015HD

    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...

    Venite et Loquamur
  • 2015
    Visions of an Island

    Visions of an Island

    Visions of an Island

    52015HD

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

    Visions of an Island
  • 1970
    When I Was a Waterfall

    When I Was a Waterfall

    When I Was a Waterfall

    01970HD

    Examines evolving regional traditions in country/Americana music across Oklahoma, Texas, Washington, and Louisiana.

    When I Was a Waterfall
  • 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
  • 2016
    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

    I'll Remember You as You Were, Not as What You'll Become

    5.52016HD

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

    I'll Remember You as You Were, Not as What You'll Become