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Lead FearlesslySeason 3, Episode 7: Tess LukeyTess Lukey is an enrolled citizen of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head Aquinnah and serves as the Associate Curator of Native American Art at the Trustees of Reservations, where she is based at both Fruitlands Museum and deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum. Her curatorial practice centers on the intersection of historic and contemporary Native American art, with a specialization in pre-20th-century materials. Lukey’s expertise also spans NAGPRA, Mayan art history, and folk art. She holds an MA in Art History with a minor in Museum Studies from the University of New Mexico and a dual BFA in Ceramics an...2025-07-1629 min
The Film Dept.'The Sundance Indigenous Shorts Tour' at The Beverly TheaterThis week we review the Sundance Indigineous Shorts Tour, Nov. 1-3 at The Beverly Theater. Check out this 83-minute theatrical program featuring eight short films from Indigenous filmmakers: four from the 2024 Sundance Film Festival program, three from the 2023 Sundance Film Festival and one short film from the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. Started in 2021 as a virtual presentation in conjunction with our friends at museums, Native cultural centers, and arthouse cinemas, the 2024 tour continues as an in-person exhibition with partnered screenings in June and the program available to rent from July 2024 to March 2025. The curated selection reflects a variety of Native stories a...2024-11-0231 min
Primal ScreenReviews of THE ZONE OF INTEREST, DRIVE AWAY DOLLS and an interview about MARUNGKA TJALATUNU“Marungka Tjalatunu exposes and weaves together those tender and difficult threads of living in multiple worlds–worlds which are your own, full of loss and love, of trauma and survival–and worlds which are thrust upon you, often violent, often unrelenting, and often unforgiving.”- Jury Statement, Berlinale 2023 (Sky Hopinka, Cătălin Cristuțiu, Isabelle Stever).This week Flick Ford is joined by directors Derik Lynch and Matthew Thorne to talk about their award-winning documentary short MARUNGKA TJALATUNU (Dipped in Black).
Marungka Tjalatjunu (Dipped In Black) / Trailer from Matthew Thorne on Vimeo.
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For The WildSKY HOPINKA on What We Pass On /364This week, Ayana is joined by Sky Hopinka in a conversation that dives deep into the meaning of art and film and the stories and emotions we share between generations. Sky grounds the conversation in his incredible expertise and thoughtful approach to media. Touching on the very questions of who we are and how we make meaning, the questions in this conversation cut to the core of what it means to be human. The conversation is a beautiful exploration of art, Indigeneity, intergenerational pain, and the way we make meaning in times like these. W...2024-02-0756 min
The Last Thing I SawEp. 213: Julian Ross on New Nonfiction at IDFAEp. 213: Julian Ross on New Nonfiction at IDFA
Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. Every year, a stimulating new crop of nonfiction cinema premieres at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. During the latest edition, I spoke with Julian Ross, an Amsterdam-based programmer and professor who is a film program advisor at IDFA and co-programmer of Doc Fortnight. He talks about recent events that occurred during the festival and attracted attention, and discusses film highlights such as Mohamad Jabaly’s Life Is Beautiful, Kaori Oda’s Gama, and Kumjana Novakova’s Silence of Reason...2023-11-1924 min
Dr. Andy's Poetry and Technology HourDyson Smith, Kim Orendor, Michael French, and Michael GallowglasOn the 10/25/23 edition of Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour:This jam-packed episode begins with Dyson Smith, who reflects on his upbringing in Chicago, the writing process, and his creative writing journey at UC Davis. He then reads a poem titled “Sociology Poem” before Kim Orendor joins the podcast. Orendor’s desire to produce resonant work inspired the plot of her most recent book To Whom It May Concern, which she shares an excerpt from. Michael French shares several upcoming art events involving a baroque concert at the Anne E. Pitzer Center, a visit from Native American...2023-10-2659 min
SeedcastSpotlight: Many Lumens with Maori Karmael Holmes - Sky Hopinka“If I want to make films about things I want to see, why not make them?” - Sky HopinkaIn our first Seedcast Spotlight of the year, Sky Hopinka – visual artist, filmmaker, educator, and MacArthur Fellow – speaks with Maori Karmael Holmes on Blackstar’s Many Lumens podcast about centering the stories Indigenous artists want to share and sidelining viewpoints of dominant white culture and artist spaces. BlackStar uplifts the work of Black, Brown, and Indigenous artists through their podcast, their film festival, and much more. Enjoy this episode, keep an ear out for the new season of Many...2023-04-1250 min
The Film Comment PodcastIndigenous Cinema with Sky Hopinka and Adam PironLast week, ThousandSuns Cinema, an online screening initiative by the Media City Film Festival, launched a unique virtual series devoted to Indigenous cinema. Co-presented with the artist-run collective COUSIN, the program brings together a vibrant selection of short and feature-length works by Indigenous filmmakers—all of which are free to stream online until January 30. The series features landmark films by established directors like Alanis Obomsawin, as well as more recent, dynamic work from emerging artists like Fox Maxy. Though the films are eclectic, with a variety of forms and themes on display, they’re united by one principle: they center Indi...2023-01-1740 min
The Atlas Obscura PodcastMaking Films with Sky HopinkaVenture into the mind of Sky Hopinka, member of the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin and MacArthur Genius Grant recipient. He and host Dylan Thuras discuss his work, his past and what he’s still searching for out on the road.Visit Sky's website to watch Jáaji Approx. and to learn more about his work: http://www.skyhopinka.com/jaaji-approximately
2023-01-0918 min
Reel IndigenousLive at Rodeo Cinema in Oklahoma CityHEADS UP: There are audio issues. Apologies. But hope you enjoy what we talk about. We had fun.Join us as we have a live discussion at Rodeo Cinema during Native Heritage month. We talked about the short films:My First Native American Boyfriend (Joey Clift, 2022) | 5minMarlon (Jason Asenap, 2022) Kicking the Clouds (Sky Hopinka, 2022) | 15 minLong Line of Ladies (Shaandiin Tome & Rayka Zehtabchi, 2022) | 22minHeadhunter’s Daughter (Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan) | 15 minTierra en Trance (Colectivo los ingrávidos, 2022) | 40 min 2022-12-0649 min
Explain MeDefining Contemporary Kitsch: Part 2 of The New York Art FairsWhat does contemporary kitsch look like? In this episode, Paddy and William use a discussion of the art fairs and New York gallery scene to lead a defining of the term. From its generic definition of objects described to be in poor taste because of excessive garishness or sentimentality, to the current nostalgia driving a tasted for recycled art movements, all kitsch lacks in originality.
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THE INDEPENDENT
Kenny Schachter at Allouche Benias Gallery
Renate Druks at The Ranch,
Olivia Reavey at Hele...2022-06-2147 min
Many Lumens with Maori Karmael HolmesSky HopinkaMaori chats with visual artist, filmmaker, writer, and photographer Sky Hopinka, director of maɬni – towards the ocean, towards the shore and a co-founder of the Indigenous film collective COUSIN. They discuss creating work that isn’t beholden to whiteness and the impact his family has had on his artistic practice. The two also get into what it means to protect and nurture space for those you hold closest and the nuances of charging white people to take your photograph.Subscribe to Many Lumens wherever you listen to your podcasts and follow us on Instagram and Twitter @manyl...2022-06-0148 min
Many Lumens with Maori Karmael HolmesSeason 2 - TrailerA sneak peek at Season 2 of Many Lumens with Maori Karmael Holmes. Produced by BlackStar Projects, this season premieres May 11, 2022 and will feature 12 new conversations with the most groundbreaking artists, change makers, and cultural workers in the game. Subscribe to Many Lumens wherever you listen to your podcasts.Follow us on Instagram and Twitter @manylumens. Trailer features Season 2 guests Imani Perry, Jeff Chang, Sky Hopinka, and Yaba Blay.Subscribe to Many Lumens wherever you listen to your podcasts and follow us on Instagram and Twitter @manylumens for the latest.2022-05-0301 min
Docs in OrbitBerlinale Shorts Program Review with curator, Anna Henckel-DonnersmarckGreetings from Berlin. In this episode, we are joined with Anna Henckel Donnersmarck, the curator and head of Berlinale Shorts. Berlinale Shorts is the section dedicated to daring works of the short form. This year’s line up does not disappoint, with a selection of 30 international and world premieres from new and established filmmakers like Radu Jude, Atsushi Wada, Sky Hopinka, and many more as well as new filmmakers with equally strong and aesthetically interesting perspectives.&...2022-02-0947 min
The Film Comment PodcastSundance 2022 #3 with Alissa Wilkinson and Violet LuccaThe Sundance Film Festival is once again in full swing, which of course means that your intrepid Film Comment crew are watching, writing, and podcasting round the clock to bring you coverage of the annual showcase for independent cinema. Though we had hoped to be reporting live from the snow-covered streets of Park City, this year’s edition is all online. But not to worry: for the next two weeks, we’ll be bringing you dispatches and podcasts covering the virtual festival right from our homes, with some help from our trusty correspondents.
For today’s conversation, Film Comment’s Devika G...2022-01-271h 00
Brooklyn, USA50 | This Is Where It’s Supposed To HappenThis week, we’re sharing work and stories from Indigenous documentarians, poets, and performers who are setting the art world and its history of cultural and historical theft on fire. • Brooklyn, USA is produced by Khyriel Palmer, Emily Boghossian, Shirin Barghi, Charlie Hoxie, and Mayumi Sato. If you have something to say and want us to share it on the show, here’s how you can send us a message: https://bit.ly/2Z3pfaW• Thank you to BRIC Radio Junior Correspondent Griff City, Taylor Cook, Lauren Germain, Sky Hopinka, and Tanaya Winder.• LINKS:Brooklyn...2021-05-0542 min
The Screen's MarginsFresh From the Margins No. 16 - The Human Voice, Maɬni - Towards the Ocean, Towards the Shore, The Mitchells vs. the MachinesThis week on FRESH FROM THE MARGINS, our weekly new releases podcast, we have an unexpectedly giant-sized episode! Anna and B review not one but THREE newly-released films, those being the much-anticipated Pedro Almodóvar short film THE HUMAN VOICE, which stars Tilda Swinton in a loose adaptation of the Cocteau play, Sky Hopinka's experimental documentary MAŁNI - TOWARDS THE OCEAN, TOWARDS THE SHORE, which centers two Chinookan people in the Pacific Northwest, and Michael Rianda's animated action/dramedy THE MITCHELLS VS. THE MACHINES, which tells the tale of a dysfunctional family coming together amid a robot apocalypse. We...2021-05-031h 10
CinemataryBabette's Feast (Food in Movies)Part 1: Zach, Jessica, Seth and Michael discuss movies they saw this week, including: Martin Eden, Sound of Metal, Antiporno, Blood Beat and a series of short films by Sky Hopinka.Part 2 (37:10): The group begins their Food in Movies series with 1987's Babette's Feast.See movies discussed in this episode here.Don't want to listen? Watch the podcast on our YouTube channel.Also follow us on:FacebookTwitterLetterboxd
2021-03-191h 29
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival (BFMAF)Sky Hopinka in conversation with BFMAF programmer Herb ShellenbergerSky Hopinka in conversation with BFMAF programmer Herb Shellenberger about the film ‘maɬni’.2020-09-1720 min
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival (BFMAF)Sky Hopinka in conversation with BFMAF programmer Herb ShellenbergerSky Hopinka in conversation with BFMAF programmer Herb Shellenberger about the film ‘maɬni’.2020-09-1720 min
The Film Comment PodcastTrue/False Film Fest 2020Right now, movie theaters are temporarily closed, and we’ll have to wait a while before we can all sit together again and look up at the big screen. But before the curtain dropped on moviegoing, Film Comment Editor-in-Chief Nicolas Rapold made his annual pilgrimage to the True/False Film Fest. True/False is a reliably energizing festival of nonfiction film, curating the best from around the world. It’s also a place to take the Film Comment Podcast on the road, taking part in Toasted, the late-night event that closes out the festival. This year, Rapold spoke with another rota...2020-04-021h 00
The Film Comment PodcastNYFF56 ProjectionsFor this week's podcast, we take a close look at Projections, the New York Film Festival’s program of experimental work from around the globe. Film Comment Editor-in-Chief Nicolas Rapold is joined by Nellie Killian, programmer and Film Comment contributing editor, and Becca Voelcker, doctoral student at Harvard and contributor, for a review of Projections highlights by Beatrice Gibson, Zachary Epcar, Jeremy Shaw, Sky Hopinka, and Laida Lertxundi, as well as the unique nature of the experimental film community.2018-10-1156 min
Arts Extract, the podcast of Tone MadisonPodcast: Sky Hopinka on dislocation and languageMilwaukee-based filmmaker Sky Hopinka talks with Tone Madison contributor Phoebe Schlough.2018-03-0123 min
Arts ExtractPodcast: Sky Hopinka on dislocation and languageMilwaukee-based filmmaker Sky Hopinka talks with Tone Madison contributor Phoebe Schlough.2018-03-0123 min
Arts Extract, the podcast of Tone MadisonPodcast: On layaway with Sky HopinkaTone Madison's Scott Gordon sits down with Milwaukee-based artist Sky Hopkina (skyhopinka.com), whose video piece "Jáaji Approx." is showing at the Wisconsin Triennial at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art through January 8, 2017.
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Co-produced with @wort-fm, wortfm.org2016-10-0623 min
Arts ExtractPodcast: On layaway with Sky HopinkaTone Madison's Scott Gordon sits down with Milwaukee-based artist Sky Hopkina (skyhopinka.com), whose video piece "Jáaji Approx." is showing at the Wisconsin Triennial at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art through January 8, 2017.
Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes: apple.co/1mL8vPk
Co-produced with @wort-fm, wortfm.org2016-10-0623 min