i nā kiʻi ma mua, nā kiʻi ma hope / images at front, images at back
kekahi wahi, editors
2025


Coil bound
346 pages
7.25  x 11 inches
Edition of 1000

ISBN 978-1-7376872-4-5

Summary: i nā kiʻi ma mua, nā kiʻi ma hope / images at front, images at back, edited and compiled by grassroots film initiative kekahi wahi, offers an incomplete genealogy of experimental, documentary, and non-narrative filmmaking of Hawaiʻi across multiple generations from the 1970s to mid 2020s.

i nā kiʻi ma mua, nā kiʻi ma hope / images at front, images at back was an eight-part screening series curated, organized, and presented by kekahi wahi between 2022 and 2024 in Honolulu, New York City, Annandale-on-Hudson, Akita City (Japan), and Cologne (Germany). This publication expands documentation of the screening series through newly commissioned essays, roundtable discussions, reflections, poems, production notes, script excerpts, scores, short work descriptions, exhibition documentation and video stills.

Participating artists and filmmakers include: Justyn Ah Chong, Nā Maka o ka ʻĀina (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 Eshrāghi, Richard Hamasaki, Vilsoni Hereniko, Christopher Kahunahana, KEANAHALA, Victoria Keith, Laura Margulies, Dan Taulapapa McMullin, Jane Chang Mi, Nicole Naone, e-nico, ʻĀina Paikai, Rap Reiplinger, Tiare Ribeaux, Sancia Miala Shiba Nash, Alec Yasunori Singer, Jakob Soto-Bauwens, Noah Keone Viernes, kekahi wahi, and Christopher Makoto Yogi.

kekahi wahi is a grassroots film initiative led by filmmaker Sancia Miala Shiba Nash and artist Drew K. Broderick. Formed on January 17th, 2020, kekahi wahi is committed to documenting transformations across the Hawaiian archipelago and sharing intersectional stories of the greater Pacific through time-based media. Other recent projects include 20 minute workout (2024), a parodic exercise video that revisits Kealakekua Bay and reworks the Captain Cook Monument on the island of Hawaiʻi; and Hoʻoulu Hou (2023), a documentary short film honoring the life and legacy of Native Hawaiian poet, artist, and activist, ʻĪmaikalani Kalāhele.