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| Showtimes | Mon March 15 6:00 PM / KAB315B |
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USA, 1998, 60 mins, 16mm,
color, English
Director/Producer/Writer Gail EVENARI (in person); Assoc. Producer Rachel GOLDBERG; Cinematographers Ray DAY, Robert ELFSTROM, Stephen LIGHTHILL
WAYFINDERS follows Hawai’ian scholars, artists, and community members as they learn how to build traditional Polynesian canoes and recover the art of wayfinding—guiding canoes across long distances using only stars, moon, sun, and ocean swells—from the brink of extinction.
Trained by Master Navigator Mau Piailug, Hokule’a navigator Nainoa Thompson becomes the first Hawai’ian in hundreds of years to master celestial navigation. Passing these ancient skills in turn to a new generation of wayfinders based all over Polynesia, Thompson helps reconnect the spirit and practice of this ancestral seafaring tradition with modern island life. WAYFINDERS reveals how keeping alive a legacy of knowledge is a means of strengthening ties with the past and facing the challenges of the future.
Candid interviews combined with archival images and breathtaking sailing footage document an extraordinary undertaking as canoes from Hawai’i, the Cook Islands, and New Zealand gather in the Marquesas and sail an ancient migratory route to Hawai’i.
preceded by
USA, 1997, 15 mins, video, color, English;
Director Peter D. BEYT
A hilarious local view of non-natives as invading insects, and one man’s lonely fight against cockroaches and flies, armed only with a towel.