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Itam Hakim Hopiit
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Filmmaker Name:
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Victor Masayesva Jr.
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Film Length:
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58 min
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Film Year:
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1984
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Duration:
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46-75 min
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Decade:
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1980s
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Language:
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in Hopi
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Subtitle Language:
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English subtitles
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Color:
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color
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Region:
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North America
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Itam Hakim Hopiit, which translates as "we / someone, the Hopi," is a poetic visualization of Hopi philosophy. Made at the time of the Hopi Tricentennial - marking 300 years since the 1680 Pueblo Revolt against Spanish colonial rule – the film presents a view of Hopi culture and history. Speaking in Hopi, a community elder shares personal recollections and cultural history, recounting stories of the Hopi emergence, perseverance, and the Bow Clan migration stories of his father. Through use of the film medium, Masayesva challenges viewers to understand the Hopi conception of time as cyclic, in which the world starts, ends, and starts again.
" ...The film offers a cultural bridge of a very different kind, evoking a culture and an environment through the look and sound of it and the fluidly majestic pace of its unfolding...to impart the drama of distant rainstorms across desert landscapes or cause one to gasp in astonishment at the rainbow that enters the frame during a revelatory pan, for indeed the lyricism of Masayesva Jr.'s imagery and the tone of reverence for the earth, whose caretakers the Hopi consider themselves to be, has the power to transport the viewer. It is the achievement of Masayesva Jr.'s work that even the most committed interpreters among us stand to be converted, if only for a moment, and taught the quiet virtues of observation.".
–Michael Renov, University of Southern California
"In this innovative work one of the last members of the Hopi historians' clan, Ross Macaya, recounts various epochs in Hopi history.... Macaya's tale concludes with a particularly Hopi type of history–the Hopi Prophesy."
– Elizabeth Weatherford, National Museum of the American Indian, in Art Journal
SELECTED SCREENINGS & AWARDS
Gold Hugo Award, Chicago International Film Festival, 1984
Museum of Modern Art, NYC
The Whitney Museum of American Art
The Long Beach Museum
National Museum of the Native American
Selected museums in Japan, the Netherlands, France, and the former Soviet Union
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