Memories
09/2020--10/2020
Memories is a project about converting an essay film to a publication, in order to practice translating between different visual languages. History and culture is a kind of collective memory that belongs to a certain group of people. Kunįkága Remembers Red Banks, Kunįkága Remembers the Welcome Song (2014, Sky Hopinka) is an essay-film that uncovered the group memories one by one that belongs to Hocak by an essay narrative way, telling the culture and been colonised history of Hocak people.
A4
210*297 mm
cartridge paper
About the Film
The video traverses the history and the memory of a place shared by both the Ho-Chunk and the settler. Red Banks, a pre-contact Ho-Chunk village site near present day Green Bay, WI was also the site of Jean Nicolet’s landing, who in 1634 was the first European what is today Wisconsin. Images and text are used to explore this space alongside my grandmother’s recollections. The scenes of the film are calm and beautiful, talking about the grateful past quietly. Each serves as representations of personal and shared memory, as well as representations of practices and processes of remembrance.
watch the film:
http://www.skyhopinka.com/kunkaga-remembers-red-banks-kunkaga-remembers-the-welcome-song