Kai Hali‘a (Sea of Memory) is a semi-autobiographical film and accompanying immersive installation that explores memory from a sensual, feminine, Kānaka ʻŌiwi diasporic perspective, rather than its traditional and phallic orientation. Seeing memory as an intricate ʻupena of both intangible and tangible threads of reality, intertwined with visceral feelings that intimately connect us with our kūpuna and the ʻāina, the act of remembering becomes our way back to our core.
