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Sky Hopinka explores Indigenous culture, history, and traditional beliefs through themes of identity, memory, language, and myth. A member of the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin and a descendent of the Pechanga Band of Luise帽o people of Southern California, Hopinka was born and raised in Ferndale, Washington, in the United States. The Pacific Northwest holds a special place in Hopinka鈥檚 artwork, especially as he delves into investigating notions of homeland, personhood, and landscape. In particular, his films reflect on the complexities of contemporary Indigenous life by blending non-narrative filmmaking, poetry, and abstract imagery with an ethnopoetic approach鈥攁 response against the ethnographic gaze that has long objectified Indigenous cultures in moving image.

Ethnopoetic cinema examines themes of cultural identity, displacement, and the everyday experience through a combination of documentary and experimental filmmaking techniques, thereby emphasizing the artistic and performative aspects of cultural expression. At the core of Hopinka鈥檚 work is a profound commitment to storytelling through his Indigenous perspective, a narrative that has long been marginalized within the Western canon. He explains, 鈥淧art of the desire I had to make films was to tell Indigenous stories that were unique to my own community and my own identity.鈥�