Sky Hopinka Movies
- 2021
The Island Weights
The Island Weights02021HD
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,...
- 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...
- 2017
Anti-Objects, or Space Without Path or Boundary
Anti-Objects, or Space Without Path or Boundary72017HD
The title of this video, taken from the texts of the architect Kengo Kuma, suggests a way of looking at everything as “interconnected and...
- 2015
Venite et Loquamur
Venite et Loquamur52015HD
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...
- 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...
- 2019
When you're lost in the rain
When you're lost in the rain02019HD
In this video drawing from Bob Dylan's song "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues," layers of experiences circling loss and longing are overlaid between...
- 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 Become5.52016HD
Texts and performances by the late Indigenous poet Diane Burns bind Sky Hopinka’s dazzling and mysterious blend of original and found sources,...