Sky Hopinka Movies

  • 2021
    The Island Weights

    The Island Weights

    The Island Weights

    02021HD

    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,...

    The Island Weights
  • 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
  • 2017
    Anti-Objects, or Space Without Path or Boundary

    Anti-Objects, or Space Without Path or Boundary

    Anti-Objects, or Space Without Path or Boundary

    72017HD

    The title of this video, taken from the texts of the architect Kengo Kuma, suggests a way of looking at everything as “interconnected and...

    Anti-Objects, or Space Without Path or Boundary
  • 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
  • 2021
    In Dreams and Autumn

    In Dreams and Autumn

    In Dreams and Autumn

    02021HD

    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...

    In Dreams and Autumn
  • 2019
    When you're lost in the rain

    When you're lost in the rain

    When you're lost in the rain

    02019HD

    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...

    When you're lost in the rain
  • 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