Jaaji Approx
Indigenous Creators
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7m 38s
Sky Hopinka combines audio recordings of his father with increasingly abstract video images of the landscapes they separately traversed. “Jáaji” is a near translation for directly addressing a father in the Hočak language.
2016 - USA - 7m 40s
Directed By: Sky Hopkina
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