Dislocation Blues (2017) by Sky Hopinka
Wednesday, October 7, 2026, 7:00 pm
Films by the COUSIN Collective and Christophe Katrib
Alternative Visions — Program 5
Presented in association with Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Admission: $18 General / $12 Cinematheque Members
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Alternative Visions
September 9–November 18, 2026
This fall BAMPFA’s long-running annual series of historical and contemporary experimental film includes the work of dozens of artists across ten programs, beginning with a program of cinematic investigations into automation and AI with Gibbs Chapman in person. The series continues into November with a program of films made by members of the Oakland-based Black Hole Collective Film Lab. Brydie O’Connor is in person with her archival portrait of queer experimental film pioneer Barbara Hammer. The late Marjorie Keller’s intimate 16mm films have a rare screening to mark the publication of a new book about her work. Artist Naeem Mohaiemen presents and discusses A Missing Can of Film (2025) in conjunction with BAM’s exhibition Private Frontiers. A selection of works made by COUSIN collective artists, including Sky Hopinka’s 2017 consideration of the Dakota Access Pipeline protest and Lindsay McIntyre’s film about caribou and lichen—made using those materials in the photographic process—screen with Lebanese artist Christophe Katrib’s This Dissonance (2024). Harun Farocki’s influential 2003 essay film War at a Distance and Gazan artist Mahmoud Alhaj’s recent videos examine how perception can be limited in the context of war and/or conflict. (Kate MacKay, Film Curator)
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Alternative Visions, program 5: Films by the COUSIN Collective and Christophe Katrib
Introduction: Mark Minch-de Leon
Founded in 2018 by Sky Hopinka, Adam Khalil, Alexandra Lazarowich and Adam Piron, COUSIN was created to support Indigenous artists expanding traditional definitions of, and experimenting with, moving image form and genre. This program offers a selection of works made by COUSIN collective artists, including Hopinka’s 2017 consideration of the Dakota Access Pipeline protest and Lindsay McIntyre’s film about caribou and lichen—made using those materials in the photographic process. A short film by Lebanese artist Christophe Katrib reflects on the dissonance he experiences living on the stolen land of the United States as “U.S.-backed Israel commits genocide and ethnic cleansing on Palestine and my homeland of Lebanon.”
SCREENING: The Early Sun, Red as a Hunter’s Moon (2025) by Adam Piron (US); DCP, color, 14 minutes. Source: Video Data Bank. Dislocation Blues (2017) by Sky Hopinka (US); DCP, color, 17 minutes. Source: Video Data Bank. Reclamation (2018) by Theo J. Cuthand (Canada); DCP, color, 13 minutes. Source: Video Data Bank. Tonalli (2021) by Colectivo Los Ingrávidos (Mexico); DCP, color, 16 minutes. Source: Video Data Bank. This Dissonance (2024) by Christophe Katrib (US); digital, color, 6 minutes. Source: Christophe Katrib. Tuktuit (2025) by Lindsay McIntyre (US); DCP, color, Inuktitut and English with English subtitles, 15 minutes. Source: Tiny Moving Pictures.
TRT: 81 minutes