“It hasn’t mattered who the photographer was, living or dead, acclaimed or unknown. Neither has the pedigree of the print; vintage, self-produced, staff-produced or mass-produced. All I had to do was love it.” Lillian Farber A closeup of an artichoke, a gritty urban subway scene, a portrait of a smiling little boy –...
Image Credit: Sky Hopinka, An enrolled member of the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin and a descendent of the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians, Hopinka uses personal and collective memories to destabilize traditional colonial narratives and critique cultural systems, such as ethnography, museology and anthropology, that continue to depict indigenous cultures in limited and static...
Co-presented with the Bright Family Screening Series, the Roxbury International Film Festival, Living on Earth podcast, DocYard and Emerson Contemporary. Directed by Sky Hopinka, documentary, chinuk wawa with English subtitles, 82 minutes, USA, 2021. This film follows Sweetwater Sahme and Jordan Mercier’s wanderings through each of their worlds as they wander through and contemplate the...
Co-presented with the Bright Family Screening Series, the Roxbury International Film Festival, Living on Earth podcast, DocYard and Emerson Contemporary. Directed by Sky Hopinka, documentary, chinuk wawa with English subtitles, 82 minutes, USA, 2021. This film follows Sweetwater Sahme and Jordan Mercier’s wanderings through each of their worlds as they wander through and contemplate the...