Online Screening of Sky Hopkina's film maɬni – towards the ocean, towards the shore (pronounced: moth-nee)
Wed, Jul 15
|Vimeo and Zoom Event
This July, join the Deep Water Initiative for a unique online screening of indigenous filmmaker, Sky Hopkina's latest work of art, followed by a zoom discussion with Associate Director, Indigenous Initiatives at Simon Fraser University, Dorothy Christian Cucw-la7, PhD.
Time & Location
Jul 15, 2020, 6:30 PM PDT
Vimeo and Zoom Event
About The Event
Continuing on from our organization's prior discussions in past events of the theme 'Indigenous filmmaking as a subtle form of activism', we are honored to be able to host this online screening and post-screening discussion of this years 2020 Sundance, New Frontiers film selection, maɬni – towards the ocean, towards the shore (pronounced: moth-nee).
Indigenous filmmaker, artist, and educator Sky Hopkina's latest film is a spectacular avant-garde demonstration of Fourth Cinema and indigenous storytelling. In the post-screening discussion we will be joined by visual storyteller, scholar, and writer Dr. Dorothy Christian Cucw-la7, who will guide us in exploring the pertinent themes presented within the film as they relate to our present social and ecological moment.
maɬni follows Sweetwater Sahme and Jordan Mercier's wanderings through each of their worlds as they wonder through and contemplate the afterlife, rebirth, and the place in-between. Spoken mostly in chinuk wawa, their stories are departures…