KAI HALIʻA

Kai Hali‘a (Sea of Memory) is a semi autobiographical short film, live cinematic experience and multimedia installation that reconfigures the traditional and phallic concept of memory by exploring memory from a sensual, queer, feminine, Kānaka ʻŌiwi, diasporic perspective. Seeing memory as an intricate ʻupena of both intangible and tangible threads of reality, intertwined with visceral feelings that intimately connect us with our kūpuna and the ʻāina, the act of remembering becomes our way back to our core.

Sponsored by Native Arts and Cultures Foundation & TRADES A.i.R

INTERACTIVE PERFORMANCE

Aupuni Space Gallery 2023

Create(x) Digital Lab 2023

Nature/Nurture 2024

29th International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA): Meanjin/Brisbane, AUS 2024

SHORT FILM

Māoriland Official Selection 2024

VC Media Official Selection (LAAPFF) 2024

Frameline Official Selection 2024 (Shortlisted for the Colin Higgins Grant & Finishing Fund)

Honolulu Museum of Art 2024

Best Experimental & Best Cinematography Junk Dump Magazine NYC 2024

Skábmagovat Indigenous Peoples’ Film Festival 2025

DayBreak Star Radio Winter Indigenous Showcase 2025