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Short Film Spotlight: Jáaji Approx.

Against landscapes that the artist and his father traversed, audio of the father in the Ho-Chunk language is transcribed using the International Phonetic Alphabet, which tapers off, narrowing the distance between recorder and recordings, new and traditional, memory and song.

Director Sky Hopinka will make an exciting return to Sundance for the 2020 Festival with malni - towards the ocean, towards the shore; a New Frontier film exploring the origin of the death myth of the Chinookan people.

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Film still courtesy of Jáaji Approx.