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Director's statement: "Another sketch in an ongoing look at transitions on Oahu, this time looking at places from my youth: my childhood home, theaters, malls, skate parks, nighttime beach parties, the state mental hospital, summer bon dances."
A ghost story set in the pastoral countryside of the north shore of O‘ahu telling the story of an elderly man facing the end of his life, visited by the ghosts of his past.
Director's statement: "Back home in Hawaii this past summer, the thing that mesmerized me most was the massive amounts of development in the city. This shifting skyline — 22 condos going up in Kakaako alone, I’m told. I’m neither for nor against all this change but I’m not ambivalent either, transitions are always powerful."
A young traveler decides to sneak into a bookstore after hours for an overnight stay.
Living out his last days in the north shore of Hawaii, an old Japanese man is visited by the ghosts of his past.
A saxophonist who grew up in Hawaii returns to the state and stays at a Buddhist bed and breakfast.
An audio-visual collage looking at 100 years of Hollywood representation of Hawai'i.
After a night of drinking in Los Angeles, Mark and Natalie, two transplants from Hawaii, retire to a friend's apartment where their drunken discussion touches upon notions of art, loneliness, and the inability to communicate.
The filmmaker travels home to Hawaii to confront the death of his father, and finds peace through the simple act of talking.
A minimalist, meditative film centering around an aimless young filmmaker in contemporary Honolulu, and the film he subsequently makes about his home.