COLLOQUIUM: Through an Indigenous Lens
Part of the University of Richmond's School of Arts and Sciences Contested Spaces: This Ground.
Event Details
Friday, November 22, 2019 | 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
University of Richmond, Robins School of Business, Ukrop Auditorium
Panelists: Filmmakers Sky Hopinka, Adam Khalil, and Zack Khalil
Moderators: Monika Siebert and Molly Fair
Contemporary Indigenous filmmakers, visual artists, and curators, Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk/Pechanga), Adam Khalil (Ojibwe), and Zack Khalil (Ojibwe) will share their work, and engage in conversation to explore questions of Indigenous cinema as anti-ethnographic practice, of formal innovation in Indigenous cinema, and the future of Indigenous cinema and art in the context of Indigenous self-determination.
Collectively, their work has been screened and exhibited at prestigious festivals and institutions including Sundance, Toronto International Film Festival, the Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern, Walker Art Center, Locarno Film Festival, New York Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, and the Whitney Biennial.
These and other great films by and about Native people are also featured as part of “Storytellers,” at the Pocahontas Reframed Film Festival scheduled for November 21-24 at the Byrd Theater in Richmond. For more http://www.pocahontasreframed.com.
Panelists
Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk/Pechanga) is an experimental filmmaker working in forms of documentary and narrative hybrids. His video work centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and landscape, designs of language as containers of culture, and the play between the known and the unknowable.
Adam Khalil (Ojibway) is a filmmaker and artist. His practice attempts to subvert traditional forms of ethnography through humor, relation, and transgression. Adam's work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, Sundance Film Festival, Walker Arts Center, e-flux, Tate Modern, New York Film Festival, the Toronto Biennial, and LACMA.
Zack Khalil (Ojibway) is a filmmaker and artist from Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, currently based in Brooklyn, NY. His work often explores an indigenous worldview and undermines traditional forms of historical authority through the excavation of alternative histories and the use of innovative documentary forms. He recently completed a B.A. at Bard College in the Film and Electronic Arts Department.
Moderators
Monika Siebert is an associate professor of English and American Studies and teaches courses in contemporary American and North American indigenous literature and film. She is the author of Indians Playing Indian: Multiculturalism and Contemporary Indigenous Art in North America (2015), American Literature, Public Culture, ab-Original: Journal of Indigenous Studies and First Nations and First Peoples' Cultures, and Mississippi Quarterly.
Molly Fair is the Cinematic Arts Librarian at the University of Richmond, and has taught courses on film and video preservation and curation. She researches the histories of experimental, activist, and community media movements, and has worked as a moving image archivist for independent documentary filmmakers including Albert Maysles, DeeDee Halleck, and William Greaves. She is the co-founder of Interference Archive, a cultural space in Brooklyn, NY.
Continue the Conversation
Sky Hopinka's films will be screened at the University of Richmond International Film Series on Thursday, November 21, 2019, at 7:30pm in Jepson Hall (Room 118) and at the Pocahontas Reframed Storytellers Film Festival on Sunday, November 24, at 1:30pm (Byrd Theater).
Adam and Zack Khalil’s film INAATE'SE (2016) will be screened at the Pocahontas Reframed Storytellers Film Festival on Sunday, November 24 at 2:30pm (Byrd Theater).
This event is co-sponsored by the Pocahontas Reframed Storytellers Film Festival and the University of Richmond (Arts & Sciences Dean’s Office, Boatwright Library, Cultural Affairs Committee, American studies and film studies programs, and the English department).