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UHM/Bank of Hawaii Cinema Series Fall Schedule |
 Through a donation from the Bank of Hawaii, the University of Hawaii will initiate a film series on its Manoa campus every Friday and Sunday in the Architecture Auditorium beginning September 24.
"Mauna Kea: Temple Under Siege" will be the premiere feature for the Cinema Series with a reception for Big Island filmmakers Puhipau and Joan Lander and Q & A planned after the 6:00 pm screening Friday, September 24.
All films are scheduled for 6 pm and 8:15 pm Friday, and at 5 pm on Sunday and are presented in the University of Hawaii Architecture Auditorium, with a capacity of 213 seats (unless otherwise specified). Prices are between $3-$5, and indicated below.
Films running during the first semester are: |
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Mauna Kea: Temple Under Siege (with filmmakers Joan Lander and Puhipau in attendance)
Friday, September 24 at 6 pm & 8:15 pm, Sunday, September 26 at 5 pm ($5) |
The mountain volcano Mauna Kea is the focus of a smoldering dispute between the international astronomy community, who value the summit as the best place in the world for observing the stars, and Native Hawaiians, who view the peak as their temple. In this film, the geological, biological, and cultural history of the revered mountain will be explored. As part of this exploration, the narrator travels to the American southwest and talk to Apache elders who also revere their high mountains, and have faced similar territorial issues. This documentary explores commonalities among indigenous people everywhere regarding cultural landscapes, particularly "star mountains" and "sky islands". |
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Pororoca: Surfing the Amazon
Friday, October 1 at 6 pm only (Spalding Auditorium) & Sunday, October 3 at 5 pm ($3) |
This film tells the story of an astonishing expedition by two world class surfers, Ross Clarke-Jones and Carlos Burle. They penetrate deep into the delta of the Amazon to experience the exceptional natural spectacle of a 20-foot tidal wave, born hundreds of miles away in the mid-Atlantic and which under certain climatic circumstances and under the full moon penetrates deep into the flow of the Amazon River. The surfers set off to meet this intimidating wall of water and to surf on it for several miles inland, avoiding crocodiles and piranha. With its enormous force, the deluge also has devastating consequences for the landscape miles up river. |
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The Future of Food
Friday, October 15 at 6 pm & 8:15 pm & Sunday, October 17 at 5 pm ($5) |
This film about genetically modified food could have been tough sledding for regular folks to sit through, but this film is an engaging and lucid presentation of not only the science of genetic engineering, but of the people and the politics behind what looks to be a pitched battle to control the global food supply. Deborah Koons Garcia, a long-time documentary filmmaker (and wife of the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia), spent the past three years writing, directing this eye-opening look at the genetic engineering (andmarketing) of the food we take for granted. |
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Rivers and Tides: Working with Time
Friday, October 22 at 6 pm only & Sunday, October 24 at 5 pm ($3) |
A zen-like meditation on the creative process of sculptor and environmental artist Andy Goldsworthy, complete with compelling photography of his work, captured in numerous best-selling books, and a stirring score by British composer Fred Frith. |
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Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
Repeat screening: Friday, October 29 at 5pm (Spalding Auditorium) $5
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The life and times of the Boston historian, activist and author of the best selling classic "A People's History of the United States." Featuring rare archival materials, interviews with Zinn as well as his colleagues and friends (including Noam Chomsky, Marian Wright Edelman, Daniel Ellsberg, Tom Hayden and Alice Walker) this film captures the essence of this activist and thinker who has been a catalyst for progressive change for more than 60 years. As Noam Chomsky said of him, "it is no exaggeration to say he has changed the consciousness of a generation." |
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Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry
Friday, October 29 at 7:30 pm (Spalding Auditorium) $5
Sunday, October 31 at 3 pm, 5:30 pm, 8:00 pm (Architecture Auditorium) |
George Butler's crisp, informative documentary underscores an essential idea that we seem to have lost rack of: that politicians are our servants -- not our bosses. The subtitle says it all: For the one current presidential candidate who actually went to Vietnam, the war wasn't just long--it's not even over. "Going Upriver" is yet another political documentary that's likely to be seen mostly by people sympathetic to the Democratic cause. But even though it's hitting theaters just weeks before one ofthe most crucial elections in modern history, the issues it raises aren't important solely because they could have an impact on that election -- and even after November, they won't have gone away. |
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Control Room
Friday, November 5 at 6 pm & 8:15 pm & Sunday, November 7 at 5 pm ($5) |
A chronicle which provides a rare window into the international perception of the Iraq War, courtesy of Al Jazeera, the Arab world's most popular news outlet. Roundly criticized by Cabinet members and Pentagon officials for reporting with a pro-Iraqi bias, and strongly condemned for frequently airing civilian causalities as well as footage of American POWs, the station has revealed (and continues to show the world) everything about the Iraq War that the current administration did not want it to see. |
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Whale Rider (in conjunction with the UH English Dept's Distinguished Lectures Program. New Zealand Maori author Witi Tame Ihimaera will speak before the 6:30 pm screening, one screening only for this film)
Friday, November 12 at 6:30 pm ($3) |
In a New Zealand coastal village, the Chief's eldest son, Porourangi, fathers twins - a boy and a girl, but only the girl, Pai survives. Grief-stricken, her father leaves her to be raised by her grandparents. Koro, her grandfather who is the Chief, refuses to acknowledge Pai as the inheritor of the tradition, blinded by prejudice against females. Meanwhile, deep within the ocean, a massive herd of whales is responding, drawn towards Pai and their twin destinies. |
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Lagos / Koolhaas (Panel discussion on the film's relevance to Honolulu follows the screening)
Friday, November 5 at 6 pm & 8:15 pm & Sunday, November 7 at 5 pm ($5) |
Rem Koolhaas--winner of architecture's Nobel, the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2003--is a Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at Harvard. For the past four years Koolhaas and students from The Harvard Project on the City have come to Lagos regularly to research the type of urban environment that is produced by explosive population growth. The Project on the City is framed by two concepts: academia's bewilderment with new forms of accelerated urbanization in developing regions and the maelstrom of redevelopment in existing urban areas; and, second, the failure of the design professions to adequately cope with these changes. Thus, for Koolhaas and his team, Lagos is a case study of a city at the forefront of a globalizing modernity: "Lagos is not catching up with us. Rather, we may be catching up with Lagos . . ." |
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Broadway: The Golden Age (with the Honolulu Theater Community)
Friday, November 19 at 6 pm only & Sunday, November 21 at 5 pm ($5) |
This is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form. It is award-winning filmmaker Rick McKay's journey over 4 continents and 5 years to find out whether there had been a golden age of theatre and why it had never been documented. He soon learned that great films can be restored, fine literature can be kept in print, but historic Broadway performances of the past are the most endangered. They leave only memories that, while more vivid, are more difficult to preserve. In their own words (and not a moment too soon) "Broadway" tells the stories of our theatrical legends, how they came to New York, and how they created this legendary century in American theatre. |
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Learning to Sea
Friday, December 3 at 6 pm & 8:15 pm & Sunday, December 5 at 5 pm ($5) |
Underwater photographer Ziggy Livnat divides his time between two homes--on the shores of the Red Sea and on theBig Island. For this film he took a video camera under water, to show us this amazing world. Using gorgeous cinematography and split-screen techniques, Livnat illustrates the fascinating variety of undersea life, and the way that species divergefrom one another in different environments. Of particular interest are theoctopus, able to change size, shape and color in the blink of an eye; and walking fish - including one never before seen on camera. Narrated by Martin Sheen. |
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Festival Express
Friday, December 10 at 6 pm & 8:15 pm & Sunday, December 12 at 5 pm ($3) |
This incredible time capsule of a movie documents the cross Canada tour by train by some of the biggest names in rock of the late 60s: The Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin & The Full Tilt Boogie Band, The Band, Buddy Guy, Delaney & Bonnie & Friends, The Flying Burrito Bros, Ian & Sylvia & The Great Speckled Bird, Mash Makan, Sha Na Na, Buddy Guy Blues Band, Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart, Rick Danko, Ken Pearson, Richard Bell, John Till, Sylvia Tyson, Jerry Mercer, Kenny Gradney, Eric Andersen, David Dalton, James Cullingham, Rob Bowman, Ken Walker. Great nostalgic fun for those that lived through the period, and an eye-opener for those not yet born at the time. This is what your parents went through. |
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