The Hawaiian island of Kauaʻi 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. MILWAUKEE PREMIERE!

(Anthony Banua-Simon, USA, English and Hawaiian w/ Eng sub, 90min, 2021, Digital)

All films shown in Mitchell Hall B91