“In a single day, how many really nonsignifying fields do we cross? Very few, sometimes none. Here I am, before the sea; it is true that it bears no message."–Roland Barthes, Mythologies. Here you are before the trees traverses Indigenous presence in the Hudson River Valley, Wisconsin, and the areas in-between. Presented in three channels, each screen focuses on different homelands and their complex relationships with history, landscape, power and institutional means of oppression.
Sky Hopinka
Director
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
The Cheshire Murders65%
Public Speaking70%
Dawg Fight65%
The Class of ‘9271%
McQueen74%
Directed by John Ford70%
180° South72%
28 Up75%
Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story62%
Trainwreck: The Real Project X59%
Report61%
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home67%
Aquaman: Heroines of Atlantis61%
Maternal Instinct71%
My Mom Jayne80%
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
A Plastic Ocean75%
The Menendez Brothers72%
Above Majestic73%
