Friday DOCS Film Series: "Cane Fire"

Program Type:

Movies & Docs

Age Group:

Adults
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The Hawaiian island of Kauai is seen as a paradise of leisure and pristine natural beauty, but these escapist fantasies obscure the colonial displacement, hyper-exploitation of workers and destructive environmental extraction that have actually shaped life on the island for the last 250 years. CANE FIRE critically examines the island's history -- and the various strategies by which Hollywood has represented it--through four generations of director Anthony Banua-Simon's family, who first immigrated to Kauai from the Philippines to work on the sugar plantations. Assembled from a diverse array of sources--from Banua-Simon's observational footage, to amateur YouTube travelogues, to epic Hollywood dance sequences -- CANE FIRE offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of the economic and cultural forces that have cast Indigenous and working-class residents as "extras" in their own story.

2019, 1hr 29min.