Film Quarterly Webinar: The Indigenous Vision of Sky Hopinka
March 9, 2022 12:00pm (EST)
The films of Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/ Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians) aesthetically intervene in the historical complicity of US photography and cinema with settler colonialism. In Film Quarterly’s Spring issue, Diana Flores Ruíz examines how Hopinka’s groundbreaking filmmaking practice challenges the very basis of vision as it has been constructed and sustained by colonial regimes of visual meaning. This webinar situates Hopinka’s practice within a broader discussion of contemporary Indigenous film and media in context. Webinar panelists include Sky Hopinka, scholar Diana Flores Ruíz (University of Washington), and special guest Bird Runningwater, curator and producer and formerly the longtime leader of Sundance Indigenous media initiatives. Moderated by FQ editor-in-chief B. Ruby Rich.
Zoom registration link available here.