Admission:
General $10
Student $7
May 9, 2026, 3pm
Brooklyn NY 11205
USA
Join us at e-flux Screening Room on Saturday, May 9, 2026 at 3pm for a screening and discussion with Sky Hopinka. Alongside a selection of his films, the afternoon brings together works by Fox Maxy, Tyson Houseman, darylina powderface, and Svetlana Romanova, selected by Hopinka as points of affinity and dialogue.
Hopinka’s work has been shaped by the artist's relation to Indigenous landscape and language. Having studied and taught Chinuk Wawa, a language Indigenous to the Lower Columbia River Basin, Hopinka has described language as foundational to how he approaches video and storytelling. His films are often characterized as poetic non-fiction, resisting the expectation that Indigenous stories must be made fully legible to an outside viewer. This program extends the artist's concerns through a group of works focusing on ancestral land, kinship, ecological attention, and forms of remembrance that exceed linear time.
Program
Sky Hopinka, He Who Wears Faces on His Ears (2025, 9 minutes)
Drawing from the Ho-Chunk story of Red Horn, also known as He Who Wears Faces on His Ears, the film moves through Indigenous mythologies and the ways they echo across present-day landscapes. It circles the thresholds between human and spirit realms, attending to the routes that pattern myth, memory, and language.
Fox Maxy, Gathering Dust (2023, 5 minutes)
Commissioned by the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Gathering Dust connects water, intergenerational care, and urban development in Los Angeles. Its layered images and soundscape consider lessons exchanged between elders and youth, and the friction and flow between generations.
darylina powderface, how it used to be (2025)
how it used to be is a short experimental film centered on blood memory and the ways memory is carried through land, water, body, story, and movement. Weaving new and archival images with song and layered sound, the film becomes an act of remembrance in which past, present, and future coexist.
Tyson Houseman, opwêyakatâmêw (2024, 10 minutes)
Created from footage gathered near Gregg Lake, Alberta, opwêyakatâmêw feature
Sky Hopinka, Here you are before the trees (2020, 13 minutes)
Here you are before the trees is a three-channel work that moves through Indigenous histories in the Hudson River Valley, Wisconsin, and the routes between them. Its three channels are set in the Mahicannituck, the Waazija, and the highways that link these places, reflecting on relocation, memory, and the relation between landscape and history.
Tyson Houseman, Collapsing Wave Function (2025, 6 minutes)
Collapsing Wave Function offers “instructions for time travel.” Created from footage gathered during residencies in Vermont, New Hampshire, and New York, the work reflects on plant consciousness, non-linear depictions of land, and plant dreaming through video feedback loops.
Svetlana Romanova, Hinkelten (2023, 15 minutes)
Formulated in vignettes, Hinkelten, which means “a cold autumn night” in the Eveny language, is woven from renderings of contemporaneity. Following narratives around love in romantic, platonic, intimate, and maternal forms, the film considers how love is visualized and how images participate in that process.
Sky Hopinka, Flesh & Ghost (2025, 14 minutes)
Based on the Hočąk story of the twins Flesh and Ghost, this two-channel work brings together myth, memory, and personal footage from Hopinka’s youth. The story of the separated twins resonates with images of family, childhood, naming, loss, and the persistence of what has passed.
For more information, contact program@e-flux.com.
Accessibility
– Two flights of stairs lead up to the building’s front entrance at 172 Classon Avenue.
– For elevator access, please RSVP to program@e-flux.com. The building has a freight elevator nearest to 180 Classon Ave, a garage door, leading into the e-flux office space. A ramp is available for steps within the space.
– e-flux has an ADA-compliant bathroom with no steps between the event space and this bathroom.
