
Sky Hopinka is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee in film, video, and new genres. He is learning his tribal heritage language, Hočak, and working on various video projects that stem from ideas of contemporary indigenous linguistic concepts, identity, and representational imagery.
movieAanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild]
2026 · Additional Photography
moviePowwow People
2025 · Director, Editor
movieSunflower Siege Engine
2023 · Director, Writer, Producer
movieDeerfoot of the Diamond
2022 · Louis Sockalexis (voice)
movieKicking the Clouds
2022 · Director
movieMnemonics of Shape and Reason
2021 · Director
The Island Weights
2021 · Director
movieIn Dreams and Autumn
2021 · Director
movieLore
2020 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor
movieCinetracts '20
2020 · Director
moviemaɬni—towards the ocean, towards the shore
2020 · Narrator (voice), Editor, Sound, Director, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography
Here you are before the trees
2020 · Director
movieWhen you're lost in the rain
2019 · Director
movieCloudless Blue Egress of Summer
2019 · Director
movieElectric Snakes
2019 · Director
movieFainting Spells
2018 · Director, Writer
movieDreaming In The Dark
2018 · Director
movieDislocation Blues
2017 · Director
movieOuroboros
2017 · Voiceover
movieAnti-Objects, or Space Without Path or Boundary
2017 · Director of Photography, Editor, Sound Designer
movieI'll Remember You as You Were, Not as What You'll Become
2016 · Director
movieVisions of an Island
2015 · Director
movieKunįkága Remembers Red Banks, Kunįkága Remembers the Welcome Song
2015 · Director
movieVenite et Loquamur
2015 · Director
movieJáaji Approx.
2015 · Director, Editor, Writer, Director of Photography
movieWawa
2014 · Director
Trade
2013 · Director
Just a Soul Responding
— · Director, Screenplay, Cinematography
When I Was a Waterfall
— · Director
movieHe Who Wears Faces on His Ears
— · Director