In this video, drawing from Bob Dylan's song "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues," layers of experiences circling loss and longing are overlaid between images of landscapes and movement. The voice tells a story about a not too distant past, a not too distant ruin, with traces of nostalgia articulated in terms of lore knowledge and memory passed down and shared not from wistful loss, but as a pastiche of rumination, reproduction, and creation. Images of friends and landscapes are cut, fragmented, and reassembled on an overhead projector as hands guide their shape and construction in this film stemming from Hollis Frampton’s “Nostalgia”. A rhythmic account of the spiritual implications of colonial plunder, Hopinka’s fluid reflections transmute ideas of spiritual malleability tied to land, sky, sea, myth, place, and personhood.”ġ6mm to HD video, stereo, color, TRT 2019 Employing an original syntax of storytelling, the artist interweaves scattered and reassembled landscapes with layers of captured audio, poetic text, and music. “Hopinka’s video Mnemonics of Shape and Reason (2021) traverses the memory of a place and space visited by the artist.
The footage is of our chosen home in Whatcom County, Washington, where my family still lives, far from our homelands in Southern California, yet a home nonetheless. After being given this tape by my mother, I interviewed her and asked about it, and recorded her ruminations on their lives and her own. This film is a reflection on descendants and ancestors, guided by a 50 year old audio recording of my grandmother learning the Pechanga language from her mother. Moments of resistance are collapsed and woven together from documentation of the Indigenous led occupation of Alcatraz, to the reclamation of Cahokia and the repatriation of the ancestors, to one’s reflections on their body as they exist in the world today, These are gestures that meditate on the carceral inception and nature of the reservation system, and where sovereignty and belligerence intersect and diverge.ġ6mm to HD video, stereo, color, 15 min. HD video, 16mm to HD video, stereo, color, 12 min. followed by a conversation with artist Sky Hopinka and art critic Jonathan Griffin. MOCA presents a screening of Sunflower Siege Engine, Kicking the Clouds, Mnemonics of Shape and Reason, Lore, and When you’re lost in the rain.
Centered in the cinema capital of the world, these programs will explore the critical issues of our time and our place. With presentations in the Ahmanson Auditorium, screenings and Q&As will feature artists, historians, and critics in dialogue with special focus on experiments in long-form, narrative or feature-length films.
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Inspired by film and video works in MOCA’s renowned collection, the series will offer engaging and notable screenings and live programs with MOCA collection artists and beyond. MOCA Artist Film series is an active and dynamic platform for the presentation of artist films. HD video, 16mm to HD video, stereo, color, TRT 12:23. Still from Sunflower Siege Engine, 2023.
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