Aikāne, 2023, 14 mins, dir Dean Hamer, Daniel Sousa, Joe Wilson
Created by Hawai’i-based filmmakers Dean Hamer and Joe Wilson, and animated by Daniel Sousait, Aikāne is a protean love story rooted in native Hawaiian Tradition. The short film follows two queer lovers — a warrior and his shape-shifting advisor — as they battle colonial evil.
Kapaemahu, 2020, 9 mins, dir Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson, Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu
Long ago, four extraordinary beings of dual male and female spirit brought the healing arts to Hawai’i and imbued their powers in four giant boulders. The stones still stand on the renowned Waikiki Beach, but their true story has been hidden - until now.
This screening is organised as part of the film programme Through the Oceanic Lens which offers a diversity of films by Pacific Indigenous filmmakers in the context of The Showroom's Oceanic Visions / Moana te kite exhibition.
