Sonic Transmissions
Sky Hopinka

We are guided through powwows, down forest paths, through stretches of lonely highways, and towards the land’s end. Each scene unfolds in a collage of moving images and sounds as if tuning a radio that vacillates between the diegetic and the external. We feel a sense of immersion and of being there, or having been there, even if in a dream (or hallucination). But remember: we’re just passengers.

“I make work for an Indigenous audience. You can watch if you’re not part of these communities. But just know that I’m not going to be doing a lot of explaining. And I don’t think it’s a lot to ask a non-Indigenous audience to try and keep up a little bit, or to try and ask questions later on, or to just stop and listen.”

– Sky Hopinka