Filmmaker Sky Hopinka’s unconventional ways of telling Native stories
, 2023-01-23 17:25:57,
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Geoff Bennett: Artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka received the prestigious MacArthur Genius Award last fall, celebrating a decade of his experimental work focused on indigenous people.
Jeffrey Brown met with Hopinka in New York’s Hudson Valley for our latest story in our series on contemporary Native American arts.
It is part of our art and culture series, Canvas.
Woman: I was here last month and it was all water.
Jeffrey Brown – A young native girl who will soon give birth, having survived difficult years. Speaking in English, with Chinook subtitles.
Man (through translator): I sing this song to Vincent.
Jeffrey Brown: A young man immersed in his native language and customs, speaking in Chinook with English subtitles.
Both explore the beauty, history, and mythology of the Pacific Northwest. The 2020 documentary “Malni: Towards The Ocean, Towards The Shore” is lyrical in form and revolves around its themes, a meditation on the Chinookan myth of death and rebirth.
It is also a love letter to the natural world. It is the first feature film by filmmaker and photographer Sky Hopinka.
Sky Hopinka, Artist and Filmmaker: There’s something special about photographing the Oregon coast in the winter when it’s gray and rainy and cloudy and the trees are a special kind of green and the land is a special shade of red that just…
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