ʻŌlelo Noʻeau Shorts
Assigned in Kumu Lisette Marie Flanary's ACM 455: Indigenous Filmmaking course, students in production teams of four are tasked with creating a short film that reveals the kaona (hidden meaning) of a ʻŌlelo noʻeau, or Hawaiian proverb visually and non linearly. Each student got one film to direct and served as key roles on each other's films. I directed Māna and served as DP on Hipuʻu, which was directed by my friend Kalei Kalaukoa.
Māna (2021)
ʻŌlelo noʻeau (proverb):
kuʻi ka māna > "like the one from whom he received what he learned" (eng.)
Said of a child who behaves like those who reared him (Pukui).
An experimental short film that visually contrasts
the culinary styles of a man living in Hawaiʻi nei today and his ancestor. By choosing his cultureʻs traditional methods of meal prep over a dependency on processed foods, he connects to his heritage and ancestor through cooking. A nonlinear, visual discourse on the colonial diet, its ramifications, and how we can rectify them.
Hipuʻu (2021)
dir. Kalei Kalaukoa
DP Justin Ocampo
