Presented in collaboration with The Herb Alpert Award in the Arts
REDCAT is proud to be part of a cluster of screenings celebrating the 2020 recipient of The Herb Alpert Award in the Arts in Film/Video, Sky Hopinka, whose captivating debut feature, maɬni – towards the ocean, towards the shore (82 min), which world premiered at the 2020 Sundance Festival, will have its nationwide release. Circling the origin of the death myth from the Chinookan people in the Pacific Northwest, Hopinka adopts unconventional documentary techniques (such as an oblique, non-frontal glance) to follow Sweetwater Sahme and Jordan Mercier as they wander through the splendid nature that surrounds them, shifting back and forth between English and Chinuk Wawa (both languages being subtitled). Sweetwater is pregnant and Jordan a family man; the separate paths they take to contemplate the afterlife, rebirth, and death hauntingly echo each other.
Live Q&A with Sky Hopinka, moderated by Berenice Reynaud
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