i na ki'i ma mua, na ki'i ma hope/images at front, images at back

Edited by grassroots film initiative kekahi wahi, i na ki'i ma mua, na ki'i ma hope is structured around an eight-part screening series of the same name which was curated, organized, and presented between 2022 and 2024 in Honolulu, New York City, Annandale-on-Hudson, Akita City (Japan), and Cologne (Germany). Through newly commissioned essays, roundtable discussions, reflections, poems, production notes, script excerpts, scores, short work descriptions, exhibition documentation and video stills, this publication offers an incomplete genealogy of experimental, documentary, and non-narrative filmmaking of Hawai?i across multiple generations from the 1970s to mid 2020s. Participating artists and filmmakers include: Justyn Ah Chong, Na Maka o ka ?Aina (Joan Lander and Puhipau), DB Amorin, Ha‘aheo Auwae-Dekker, Angelique “Ang” Kalani Axelrode, Brigitte “Gig” Leilani Axelrode, Vincent Bercasio with Madelyn Biven & Bradley Capello, Sean Connelly, Melina Kiyomi Coumas, Duncan Dempster, Sung Hwan Kim & David Michael DiGregorio, Leilehua Lanzilotti & Kevin Eikenberg, Léuli Eshraghi, Richard Hamasaki, Vilsoni Hereniko, Christopher Kahunahana, KEANAHALA, Victoria Keith, Laura Margulies, Dan Taulapapa McMullin, Jane Chang Mi, Nicole Naone, e-nico, ?Aina Paikai, Rap Reiplinger, Tiare Ribeaux, Sancia Miala Shiba Nash, Alec Yasunori Singer, Jakob Soto-Bauwens, Noah Keone Viernes, kekahi wahi, and Christopher Makoto Yogi. Edition of 1000.