PRAx is pleased to present a special screening of Malni — Towards the Ocean, Towards the Shore, a film by artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka. A poetic, experimental debut feature circling the origin of the death myth from the Chinookan people in the Pacific Northwest, the film follows two people as they wander through their surrounding nature, the spirit world, and something much deeper inside.
Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians, born 1984, Ferndale, Washington) layers imagery and poetic prose to create art that foregrounds relationships between communities, landscape and language. His work intermingles English and Indigenous dialects such as Chinuk Wawa, a revived Chinookan creole of the Pacific Northwest, to consider how language shapes perception of place and acts as a container of culture.
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