The American Imagination: Sky Hopinka Screening & Discussion

Join Humanities New York on Thursday, May 8 for a moderated conversation with celebrated filmmaker and artist Sky Hopinka. 

Hopinka’s experimental films examine the close connection between landscape, language, and culture through immersive, multi-layered sound and striking imagery, often creatively distorted to provoke new responses in viewers. The program will begin with a screening of some of Hopinka’s short films, followed by a moderated conversation with Hopinka about his process, how indigeneity informs his films, and how filmmaking can help us reflect not only on the past, but help us imagine the future. 

Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians) was born and raised in Ferndale, Washington and Palm Springs, California. His work has played at various festivals including Sundance, Toronto International Film Festival, and the New York Film Festival. His films, videos, and photographs are in collections at the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt, Germany, The Whitney Museum, the Amon Carter Museum of Art, and the Walker Art Center amongst others. He received the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship in 2022. Hopinka lives in Brooklyn, and is an assistant professor in the department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University.

“The American Imagination: screening and discussion with Sky Hopinka” will take place the evening of Thursday, May 8, at the Firehouse Cinema at 87 Lafayette Street in Manhattan.

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