Sky Hopinka Movies

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...

An experimental documentary, Kicking the Clouds is centered on a 50-year-old cassette tape of a Pechanga language lesson between the director’s...

Examines evolving regional traditions in country/Americana music across Oklahoma, Texas, Washington, and Louisiana.

A deal between two men threatens to unravel as tensions rise in this contemporary look at Indigenous language and culture.

An exploration of Fort Marion, the US fort where Native American prisoners of war were placed.

Against landscapes that the artist and his father traversed, audio of the father in the Ho-Chunk language is transcribed using the International...

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...