Pacific Islands and Asian Studies Videos

The School of Pacific and Asian Studies is beginning to put videos of its activities on the web for the academic community and the public.

We have divided these into videos mainly dealing with the Pacific Islands and those dealing with Asia. There will be some content that pertains to Hawai'i, but only as it concerns the Pacific Islands.

The files are QuickTime® video and audio. Most H.264/AAC/MP4 files, but a few use other codecs. They are streamed on-demand with QuickTime Streaming Server. If you are using Microsoft Windows® and do not have the plug-in you will have to download it from Apple. Here is the link. If you don't know if you have the plug-in, just click on the video, and if you don't have it, the program will ask if you want to download it. (linux with VLC plugin seems to work fine, too)

Pacific Islands Studies Videos

Negotiating Pacific Identities: Ethnicity, Encounters and Self-determination

United Nation's Seminar, Honolulu, 2004

This was the first United Nation's Seminar ever held in the United States. It dealt with several broad themes important to Pacific Islanders, including Hawaiians.

Pacific Writers/Artists

These are presentations by writers and artists from the Pacific Islands who are in residence at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa for a semester. Some of the talks are part of the Hawai'i BiblioVision series produced by the English Department. The writers and artists are brought to Hawai'i with the cooperation of the Center for Pacific Islands Studies.

Micronesian Voices in Hawai'i

A conference held 3-4 April 2008 Imin Conference Center, Honolulu, Hawai'i

Asian Studies Videos

Asian Theater and Drama

A Balinese Tempest Shakespeare as an Indonesian shadow drama. The complete performance, as seen from the audience [01:24:00], or a behind the scenes how-we-did-it look [01:21:00]

Luck and Loss: Manadin's Gamble, Indonesian Randai, a martial arts performance seen from audience [00:46:37] and a number of clips of interviews with the performers director and teachers from Indonesia who came to help with the production.

Nozaki Village, a Japanese kabuki performance by UHM students. April-May 2004. As part of the Freeman Foundation Artist in Residence Program, Watanabe Yutaka came to offer his expertise. This video is not of the performance itself, but of how it was done. [00:09:33]

Mahabharata: Shadow Puppet Theatre of Yogyakarta, with an introduction and 3 acts performed by the Hawai'i Gamelan Society [00:44:00], [00:39:38],[00:27:40]

Asian Film World

Two interviews with Malaysian film director Yasmin Ahmad [00:33:25 and 00:18:06]

In this interview, actress Sharifah Amani and producer Elyna Shukri discuss their experiences making Gubra, directed by Yasmin Ahmad, at the Hawai'i International Film Festival. [00:37:33]

Raymond Lee discusses the making of the Philippine film, The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros. [00:17:58]

Love For Share (Indonesia) Nia Dinata, Jajang C. Noer and Rohayati Peseng discuss the film which captured the Golden Orchid for Best Feature Film at the Hawai'i International Film Festival, 2006 [00:51:41]

Language Learning

Mandarin for Kids, Cyndy Ning's latest video series. Teaching Chinese to kids. Lesson 1 [00:11:04]

Exploring in Chinese Cyndy Ning's series of videos for teaching Chinese. This was shot in Beijing with ordinary people to give students the opportunity to hear different accents and intonations. Lesson 1: Three students introduce themselves [00:01:03], Lesson 10: Making an appointment on the phone [00:01:03], Lesson 24: Visiting a health clinic [00:02:25]

Say it in Chinese, Cyndy Ning's series of Introductory Chinese [00:14:53]

Music

Debashish and Subashish Battacharya at Kamehameha School, 2004. The brother give an example of the slack key/slide guitar -- an instrument developed by a Kamehameha student, Joseph Kekuku. [00:36:48]

The Hawai'i Kakula Ensemble [00:39:30]

Ethnographic Materials

Sapril bin Akmady's, MA thesis for the Asian Studies Program. Inside the Frontier: Culture and Environment of the Ammatoa People in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, 01:02:22

Altai Migration, Kazakh nomads in Western China, a videodocumentary by Prof. Dru Gladney, summer 2003 [00:50:41]. Shot in Xinjiang.