Land, Body, Water: Pō’ele Wai and Waikiki
Carrer de l’Almudaina 4, Palma
Universitat de les Illes Balears
Missy Molloy, Senior Lecturer in Film at Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand), will discuss two films that address environmental and cultural exploitation in contemporary Hawai’i: Pō’ele Wai (dir. Tiare Ribeaux 2022) and Waikiki (dir. Christopher Kahunahana 2020). Both films utilise a blend of realism and surrealism to spotlight the material impacts of Hawai’i’s militarisation and commodification as well as alternative, Kanaka views on land, body and water as interconnected.
The seminar will be followed by a roundtable “Decolonizing the Anthropocene: Cinema, Aesthetics and Politics” (with Laura Del Vecchio, Andrea Ruthven and Katarzyna Paszkiewicz), and book launch: Cinema of/for the Anthropocene: Affect, Ecology, and More-Than-Human Kinship (Routledge, 2025).
With support from the project “Cinema and Environment 2: Ways of Seeing beyond the Anthropocene”, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, and by the European Union (grant PID2023-152989NB-I00, funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and the EU’s European Regional Development Fund, ERDF).