Archive: Year 2020
GREEN DOX
małni—towards the ocean, towards the shore
Director
Sky Hopinka
Producer
Steve Holmgren
Cinematographer
Sky Hopinka
Music
Thad Kellstadt
Sound
Drew Durepos
Website
2020
United States
22 min
Color
A poetic experimental documentary circling the origin of the death myth from the Chinookan people in the Pacific Northwest, małni – towards the ocean, towards the shore follows two people as they wander through their surrounding nature, the spirit world, and something much deeper inside.
Director
Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk/Pechanga) was born and raised in Washington and spent a number of years in California and Oregon. In Portland he studied and taught Chinuk Wawa, a language indigenous to the Columbia River Basin. He received his BA from Portland State University in liberal arts and his MFA in film, video, animation, and new genres from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He currently teaches at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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