Critical Writing Index

Temporal Territories: An Anthology on Indigenous Experimental Cinema

by Sky Hopinka, Adam Khalil and Alexandra Lazarowich

Brooklyn: COUSIN Collective, 2024

ISBN 978-0-9979102-2-3

COUSIN Collective "presents an anthology of writers, artists, and filmmakers who were each meditating and musing on the work of Indigenous Peoples experimenting with the moving image in form and concept." (Quote taken from page 4.)

Edited by Sky Hopinka, Adam Khalil, Alexandra Lazarowich, and Adam Piron. Includes short biographies of all contributors.

Contents: Introduction, by COUSIN Collective; Every Picture Tells a Story, by Paul Chaat Smith; Way We Move, by Lou Cornum; Pure Legend: Dispatch From an Incomplete Search for the DeMille Indians, by Adam Piron; To End and Begin Again: The Work of Victor Masayesva, Jr, by Elizabeth Weatherford; Cousins and Kin, by Fox Maxy and Shelley Niro; Indigenous Cinema and the Limits of Auteurism, by Girish Shambu; Film is the Body, by Sky Hopinka; Anticipation of a Remembrance: The Politics of Continuity in Indigenous Found-Footage and Archival Cinema, by Michael Metzger; Vehicle to Memory, by Caroline Monnet; A Comic, by Walter Scott; The Violence Inherent: Native Videographers Shoot Back, by Adam Khalil and Zack Khalil; Catching Fire: INAATE/SE and the Limits of Documentary, by Adam Spry; Desire Lines: Sky Hopinka's Undisciplining of Vision, by Diana Flores Ruíz; Winyan Yamni: Three Dreams, by Kite; KIN: A Case Study in Indigiqueer Aesthetics, Digital Co-authorship, and Felt Governance, by Jas M. Morgan; Thesis on the Audiovisual, by Colectivo Los Ingrávidos; Reflections on Language Based on the All-Encompassing Sequence Shot: Formal Processes in Bolivian Cinema, by Miguel Hilari; We Are All Aliens in Pandemia, or a Navajo and a Mexican Artist, Bonded by Chicanismo, Reflect on Art and Pandemia, by Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Raven Chacon; To Weave With Light, Ulana me ka mālamalama, by Tiare Ribeaux; Taking the Fiction out of Science Fiction, by Grace Dillon and Pedro Neves Marques; Contributors.

ITEM 2024.026 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

The Exiles – Kent Mackenzie

Itam Hakim, Hopiit – Victor Masayesva Jr.

Imagining Indians – Victor Masayesva Jr.

Honey Moccasin – Shelley Niro

Café Daughter – Shelley Niro

Powwow Highway – Jonathan Wacks

One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk – Zacharias Kunuk

One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk – Norman Cohn

Waru – Briar Grace-Smith

Waru – Casey Kaa

Waru – Ainsley Gardiner

Waru – Katie Wolfe

Waru – Renae Maihi

Waru – Chelsea Cohen

Waru – Paula Jones

Waru – Awanui Simich-Pene

Waru – Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu

Waru – Kerry Warkia

Waru – Kiel McNaughton

Jáaji Approx – Sky Hopinka

Mobilize – Caroline Monnet

Kicking the Clouds – Sky Hopinka

INAATE/SE [it shines a certain way. to a certain place./it flies. falls./] – Adam Khalil

INAATE/SE [it shines a certain way. to a certain place./it flies. falls./] – Zack Khalil

Native Videographers Shoot Back – Allison Boucher Krebs

Wawa – Sky Hopinka

I'll Remember You as You Were, Not as What You'll Become – Sky Hopinka

Dislocation Blues – Sky Hopinka

Malni - Towards the Ocean – Sky Hopinka

Winyan Yamni: Three Dreams – Kite

KIN – Jas M. Morgan

Positions – Justin Ducharme

Tonalli – Colectivo Los Ingrávidos

Tierra en Trance – Colectivo Los Ingrávidos

La nación clandestina – Jorge Sanjinés

La nación clandestina – Ukamau Group

Down on the Sidewalk in Waikiki – Justyn Ah Chong

Down on the Sidewalk in Waikiki – Āina Paikai

Kapaemahu – Mitchel Merrick

Papa Mau: The Wayfinder – Na'alehu Anthony

Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction – Grace Dillon

Guillermo Gómez-Peña

Diane Burns

Cecil B. DeMille

Fox Maxy

Theo J. Cuthand