FILM

Wawa
Sky Hopinka, , US, HD, 6'

Sky Hopinka is an enrolled member of the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin working on various projects that stem from ideas of contemporary Indigenous linguistic concepts and representational imagery. In Wawa, Hopinka hovers between a Chinuk Wawa lesson in New York and a series of interviews with and by Henry Zenk, the leading specialist of Chinuk Wawa, an American northwest coast indigenous based language adopted by European and American traders traders and settlers in the 18th and 19th centuries.