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Deerfoot of the Diamond
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Deerfoot of the Diamond

Sep 27, 2022

Deerfoot of the Diamond
2022 27 min 1 vues
In late 2021, Cleveland’s baseball team was reborn as the Guardians. This documentary, directed by Lance Edmands, chronicles the saga of that name change, which has its roots in a forgotten legend named Louis Sockalexis, and the tragedy that enveloped his story more than a century ago.
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Ouroboros
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Ouroboros

Apr 29, 2017

Ouroboros
2017 74 min 4 vues
Un hommage à la bande de Gaza bouleversant la représentation médiatique du traumatisme, dans lequel un homme parcourt cinq paysages distincts pour un voyage en dehors du temps où la fin est le commencement. Une exploration du thème de l’éternel retour et de notre résilience face à la perte.
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Dreaming In The Dark
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Dreaming In The Dark

Jan 04, 2018

Dreaming In The Dark
2018 25 min 1 vues
For Dreaming the Dark: hands that see, eyes that touch, Ana Vaz invited artists and filmmakers whose work trust cinema’s capacity to transform relationships between the body and the camera to propose works that will engage with both perception and embodiment. Could cinema be an art of embodiment? By what rituals and actions could vision become tactile?
Electric Snakes
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Electric Snakes

Jan 01, 2019

Electric Snakes
2019 5 min 1 vues
In Electric Snakes, Adrian C. Louis’s thirteenth poetry collection, no one is spared his critical eye, including himself. These powerful and often humorous poems cover myriad subjects: Trump, music, zombies, Jimmy John’s, childhood, caller ID, venetian blinds, magpies, love, and Mom.
Anti-Objects, or Space Without Path or Boundary
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Anti-Objects, or Space Without Path or Boundary

Apr 22, 2017

Anti-Objects, or Space Without Path or Boundary
2017 13 min 1 vues
The title of this video, taken from the texts of the architect Kengo Kuma, suggests a way of looking at everything as “interconnected and intertwined” - such as the historical and the present and the tool and the artifact. Images and representations of two structures in the Portland Metropolitan Area that have direct and complicated connections to the Chinookan people who inhabit(ed) the land are woven with audio tapes of one of the last speakers of chinuk wawa, the Chinookan creole. These localities of matter resist their reduction into objects, and call anew for space and time given to wandering as a deliberate act, and the empowerment of shared utility.
Documentary
Just a Soul Responding
1

Just a Soul Responding

Jan 01, 1970

Just a Soul Responding
1970 16 min 1 vues
This is a travelogue of sorts, as two friends whose lives intersect and diverge, look at the road and the vessels we use as means to traverse landscapes both contemporary and historical, and of the spirit and of the body.
Documentary
HuyHuy
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HuyHuy

Jan 01, 2013

HuyHuy
2013 5 min 1 vues
A deal between two men threatens to unravel as tensions rise in this contemporary look at Indigenous language and culture.
In Dreams and Autumn
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In Dreams and Autumn

Jan 01, 2021

In Dreams and Autumn
2021 11 min 1 vues
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 series of etched photographs. A letter to a sibling, reflecting on our pasts and ourselves, and the parents and grandparents we knew and could never know. Told in three channels, the voices and the texts overlap and are distant, where a return to the road is a return to solitude as the memories of our grandmothers shape a present loneliness and a gathering of futures.
The Island Weights
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The Island Weights

Jul 15, 2021

The Island Weights
2021 10 min 1 vues
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 spirits are placed at the Earth’s cardinal points, ensuring that its rotation is not chaotic. Ho-Chunk, now known as Wisconsin, translates as “People of the Great Voice” and stretches from Red Banks to Trempealeau, and from Minneapolis to Milwaukee. The film is divided into 5 parts — Wijirawaséwe (Island Weights), yoiréreginarere (the west), rek’úhuhíra (the south), hą́boguominàgara (the east), siniwagúreginągere (the north) — and follows an individual as he recounts his journey along the boundaries of Ho-Chunk lands. Visually, the viewer is drawn from the tumultuous waves of the Mississippi to serene forests, tranquil lakes, enormous shopping malls, earthen effigies and Ho-Chunk relics. The narrator is not only looking for the spirits, but also wishes to honor them.
Kicking the Clouds
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Kicking the Clouds

Jan 20, 2022

Kicking the Clouds
2022 15 min 1 vues
An experimental documentary, Kicking the Clouds is centered on a 50-year-old cassette tape of a Pechanga language lesson between the director’s grandmother and great-grandmother, and contextualized by an interview with his mother in his Pacific Northwest hometown.
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Mnemonics of Shape and Reason
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Mnemonics of Shape and Reason

Oct 27, 2021

Mnemonics of Shape and Reason
2021 4 min 1 vues
“Hopinka’s video Mnemonics of Shape and Reason (2021) traverses the memory of a place and space visited by the artist. Employing an original syntax of storytelling, the artist interweaves scattered and reassembled landscapes with layers of captured audio, poetic text, and music. A rhythmic account of the spiritual implications of colonial plunder, Hopinka’s fluid reflections transmute ideas of spiritual malleability tied to land, sky, sea, myth, place, and personhood.”
Jáaji Approx.
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Jáaji Approx.

Jan 22, 2015

Jáaji Approx.
2015 8 min 8 vues
Against landscapes that the artist and his father traversed, audio of the father in the Ho-Chunk language is transcribed using the International Phonetic Alphabet, which tapers off, narrowing the distance between recorder and recordings, new and traditional, memory and song.
Documentary
Sunflower Siege Engine
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Sunflower Siege Engine

Jan 19, 2023

Sunflower Siege Engine
2023 13 min 1 vues
Moments of resistance are collapsed and woven together; from documentation of the Indigenous led occupation of Alcatraz, to the reclamation of Cahokia and the repatriation of the ancestors, to one’s reflections on their body as they exist in the world today, These are gestures that meditate on the carceral inception and nature of the reservation system, and where sovereignty and belligerence intersect and diverge.
Documentary
Sunflower Siege Engine
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Sunflower Siege Engine

Jan 19, 2023

Sunflower Siege Engine
2023 13 min 1 vues
Moments of resistance are collapsed and woven together; from documentation of the Indigenous led occupation of Alcatraz, to the reclamation of Cahokia and the repatriation of the ancestors, to one’s reflections on their body as they exist in the world today, These are gestures that meditate on the carceral inception and nature of the reservation system, and where sovereignty and belligerence intersect and diverge.
Documentary
Sunflower Siege Engine
7

Sunflower Siege Engine

Jan 19, 2023

Sunflower Siege Engine
2023 13 min 1 vues
Moments of resistance are collapsed and woven together; from documentation of the Indigenous led occupation of Alcatraz, to the reclamation of Cahokia and the repatriation of the ancestors, to one’s reflections on their body as they exist in the world today, These are gestures that meditate on the carceral inception and nature of the reservation system, and where sovereignty and belligerence intersect and diverge.
Documentary
Anti-Objects, or Space Without Path or Boundary
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Anti-Objects, or Space Without Path or Boundary

Apr 22, 2017

Anti-Objects, or Space Without Path or Boundary
2017 13 min 1 vues
The title of this video, taken from the texts of the architect Kengo Kuma, suggests a way of looking at everything as “interconnected and intertwined” - such as the historical and the present and the tool and the artifact. Images and representations of two structures in the Portland Metropolitan Area that have direct and complicated connections to the Chinookan people who inhabit(ed) the land are woven with audio tapes of one of the last speakers of chinuk wawa, the Chinookan creole. These localities of matter resist their reduction into objects, and call anew for space and time given to wandering as a deliberate act, and the empowerment of shared utility.
Documentary
Anti-Objects, or Space Without Path or Boundary
7

Anti-Objects, or Space Without Path or Boundary

Apr 22, 2017

Anti-Objects, or Space Without Path or Boundary
2017 13 min 1 vues
The title of this video, taken from the texts of the architect Kengo Kuma, suggests a way of looking at everything as “interconnected and intertwined” - such as the historical and the present and the tool and the artifact. Images and representations of two structures in the Portland Metropolitan Area that have direct and complicated connections to the Chinookan people who inhabit(ed) the land are woven with audio tapes of one of the last speakers of chinuk wawa, the Chinookan creole. These localities of matter resist their reduction into objects, and call anew for space and time given to wandering as a deliberate act, and the empowerment of shared utility.
Documentary
Anti-Objects, or Space Without Path or Boundary
7

Anti-Objects, or Space Without Path or Boundary

Apr 22, 2017

Anti-Objects, or Space Without Path or Boundary
2017 13 min 1 vues
The title of this video, taken from the texts of the architect Kengo Kuma, suggests a way of looking at everything as “interconnected and intertwined” - such as the historical and the present and the tool and the artifact. Images and representations of two structures in the Portland Metropolitan Area that have direct and complicated connections to the Chinookan people who inhabit(ed) the land are woven with audio tapes of one of the last speakers of chinuk wawa, the Chinookan creole. These localities of matter resist their reduction into objects, and call anew for space and time given to wandering as a deliberate act, and the empowerment of shared utility.
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Dislocation Blues
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Dislocation Blues

Sep 08, 2017

Dislocation Blues
2017 17 min 6 vues
Filmed during the 2016 Standing Rock protests in South Dakota, Sky Hopinka's Dislocation Blues offers a portrait of the movement and its water protectors, refuting grand narratives and myth-making in favour of individual testimonials.
Documentary
Visions of an Island
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Visions of an Island

Nov 18, 2015

Visions of an Island
2015 15 min 1 vues
An Unangam Tunuu elder describes cliffs and summits, drifting birds, and deserted shores. A group of students and teachers play and invent games revitalizing their language. A visitor wanders in a quixotic chronicling of earthly and supernal terrain. These visions offer glimpses of an island in the center of the Bering Sea.
Jáaji Approx.
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Jáaji Approx.

Jan 22, 2015

Jáaji Approx.
2015 8 min 8 vues
Against landscapes that the artist and his father traversed, audio of the father in the Ho-Chunk language is transcribed using the International Phonetic Alphabet, which tapers off, narrowing the distance between recorder and recordings, new and traditional, memory and song.
Documentary
Jáaji Approx.
6

Jáaji Approx.

Jan 22, 2015

Jáaji Approx.
2015 8 min 8 vues
Against landscapes that the artist and his father traversed, audio of the father in the Ho-Chunk language is transcribed using the International Phonetic Alphabet, which tapers off, narrowing the distance between recorder and recordings, new and traditional, memory and song.
Documentary
Wawa
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Wawa

Jul 15, 2014

Wawa
2014 6 min 1 vues
Featuring speakers of Chinuk Wawa, an Indigenous language from the Pacific Northwest, WAWA begins slowly, patterning various forms of documentary and ethnography. Quickly, the patterns tangle and become confused and commingled, while translating and transmuting ideas of cultural identity, language, and history.
Documentary
Venite et Loquamur
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Venite et Loquamur

Jun 17, 2015

Venite et Loquamur
2015 11 min 1 vues
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 and I participate while navigating the errata with my camera.
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Fainting Spells
5.5

Fainting Spells

May 10, 2018

Fainting Spells
2018 10 min 4 vues
Told through recollections of youth, learning, lore, and departure, this is an imagined myth for the Xąwįska, or the Indian Pipe Plant - used by the Ho-Chunk to revive those who have fainted.
Kunįkága Remembers Red Banks, Kunįkága Remembers the Welcome Song
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Kunįkága Remembers Red Banks, Kunįkága Remembers the Welcome Song

Sep 22, 2015

Kunįkága Remembers Red Banks, Kunįkága Remembers the Welcome Song
2015 10 min 1 vues
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 near present day Green Bay, WI was also the site of Jean Nicolet’s landing, who in 1634 was the first European what is today Wisconsin. Images and text are used to explore this space alongside my grandmother’s recollections. Each serve as representations of personal and shared memory, as well as representations of practices and processes of remembrance.
Documentary
Fainting Spells
5.5

Fainting Spells

May 10, 2018

Fainting Spells
2018 10 min 4 vues
Told through recollections of youth, learning, lore, and departure, this is an imagined myth for the Xąwįska, or the Indian Pipe Plant - used by the Ho-Chunk to revive those who have fainted.
When you're lost in the rain
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When you're lost in the rain

Jan 17, 2019

When you're lost in the rain
2019 5 min 1 vues
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 images of landscapes and movement. In the song, a stranger's listlessness and exhaustion are woven through and around Juarez, Mexico, and so, too, are these stories woven around original discontent and uncertainty as they move through an uneasy negotiation with the strangeness of the American pioneer spirit.
Lore
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Lore

Oct 15, 2020

Lore
2020 10 min 1 vues
Images of landscapes are cut and fragmented, as a hand guides their shape and construction. The voice tells a story about a not too distant past, and elements of nostalgia are assembled in terms of lore.
Cinetracts '20
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Cinetracts '20

Oct 08, 2020

Cinetracts '20
2020 44 min 1 vues
A global portrait documenting the year's events, Cinetracts '20 features the work of an international lineup of 20 filmmakers. Capturing the zeitgeist in their own backyard, the artists' short films are the culmination of a year-long residency project.
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Jáaji Approx.
6

Jáaji Approx.

Jan 22, 2015

Jáaji Approx.
2015 8 min 8 vues
Against landscapes that the artist and his father traversed, audio of the father in the Ho-Chunk language is transcribed using the International Phonetic Alphabet, which tapers off, narrowing the distance between recorder and recordings, new and traditional, memory and song.
Documentary
Lore
7

Lore

Oct 15, 2020

Lore
2020 10 min 1 vues
Images of landscapes are cut and fragmented, as a hand guides their shape and construction. The voice tells a story about a not too distant past, and elements of nostalgia are assembled in terms of lore.
Lore
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Lore

Oct 15, 2020

Lore
2020 10 min 1 vues
Images of landscapes are cut and fragmented, as a hand guides their shape and construction. The voice tells a story about a not too distant past, and elements of nostalgia are assembled in terms of lore.
Lore
7

Lore

Oct 15, 2020

Lore
2020 10 min 1 vues
Images of landscapes are cut and fragmented, as a hand guides their shape and construction. The voice tells a story about a not too distant past, and elements of nostalgia are assembled in terms of lore.
Just a Soul Responding
1

Just a Soul Responding

Jan 01, 1970

Just a Soul Responding
1970 16 min 1 vues
This is a travelogue of sorts, as two friends whose lives intersect and diverge, look at the road and the vessels we use as means to traverse landscapes both contemporary and historical, and of the spirit and of the body.
Documentary
Just a Soul Responding
1

Just a Soul Responding

Jan 01, 1970

Just a Soul Responding
1970 16 min 1 vues
This is a travelogue of sorts, as two friends whose lives intersect and diverge, look at the road and the vessels we use as means to traverse landscapes both contemporary and historical, and of the spirit and of the body.
Documentary