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In âmalni ⦠,â the Pacific Northwest offers a fairy-tale beauty shot through with darkness
By Peter Keough Globe Correspondent,Updated May 5, 2021, 2 hours ago
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As can be seen in artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinkaâs experimental documentary â
maɬni â towards the
ocean, towards the shoreâ (2020), film has the power to evoke transcendent experience.
Himself a member of Wisconsinâs Ho-Chunk nation, Hopinka attended Portland State University, in Oregon, where he befriended members of the Chinook nation from that area and learned their language, Chinuk Wawa. In the film he follows two of these friends â Sweetwater Sahme and Jordan Mercier â while they ponder the past and present, life and death, family and estrangement, and the meaning of their indigenous identity.