Films
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Cine Latino: Wiñaypacha (Eternity)
Film - Documentary | October 30 | 7-8:30 p.m. | 160 Kroeber Hall
Center for Latin American Studies
Wiñaypacha is the first film shot entirely in Aymara, an indigenous language spoken by Aymara people in Peru and Bolivia. Incorporating and expressing the intricacies of Aymara language and cosmology, Wiñaypacha depicts the story of an elderly couple named Willka and Phaxsi (Sun and Moon). Amidst the backdrop of the captivating and rugged Andes mountains, they wait for their son who has left for... More >
Still from Wiñaypacha. (Image courtesy of Quechua Films.)
Afterimage: Sky Hopinka in Person
Film - Series | October 30 | 7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
“The searching, striking digital films of Sky Hopinka are complex formal arrangements, conceptually and aesthetically dense, characterized by an intricate layering of word and image. But they are also wellsprings of beauty and mystery, filled with surprising confluences of speech and song, color and motion. A member of the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin, Hopinka has described his work as... More >
