Gus Fisher Gallery and Pollywood Pasifika Film proudly present a screening of select short films exploring climate change in the Pacific, curated by Craig Fasi. Drawing out dialogues raised in the exhibition Tala o le tau, these films examine the urgency and resilience of Pasifika people in the face of the climate crisis.
Including: The Chief’s Speech (to the United Nations), SNOW IN PARADISE , Burning of the Gods , Our Atoll Speaks and TIKIX823 .
Runtime: 55 minutes
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The Chief’s Speech (to the United Nations) (2015, dir. Vilsoni Hereniko)
Chief Telematua's impassioned speech may well change your understanding of climate change. A plea from Moana-Nui-A-Kiwi to the people of the world, a coda for our age.
SNOW IN PARADISE (2011, dir. Nikki Si'ulepa & Justine Simei-Barton)
A snapshot of life on a remote, picturesque island in the south Pacific through the eyes of a young Polynesian girl. As she ventures out on her daily routine she encounters the familiar faces of her family and the small community that she loves. Like her, they are all unsuspecting of the devastating power that lies beyond the ocean reef in a nuclear testing facility. In one moment her world will change forever.
Burning of the Gods (2022, dir. Karin Wiliams)
An airplane lands. A massive cruise boat anchors off the reef, disgorging tourists for tropical island vacations. This postcard paradise depends on petroleum imports to fuel its cars, motorbikes, boats, hotels, pumps and machinery. Yet if the tourists stop coming, what then?
Our Atoll Speaks (2019, dir. Gemma Cubero del Barrio)
Our Atoll Speaks (Ko Talatala Mai To Matou Wenua), enter the breathtaking atoll of Pukapuka/Nassau in this communal film-poem and discover the wisdom of our ancestors.
TIKIX823 (2016, dir. Jason SIliva Taouma)
In a not too distant future where everyone now lives on remote islands, Tiki, a lone Samoan explorer must return to the land and come to terms with a terrible secret that will unlock his past, in order to know his fate.
