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Title Timeless craft : building Mauloa / written, directed and produced by Gail Evenari
Published San Francisco, CA : Maiden Voyage Productions, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (19 minutes)
Summary TIMELESS CRAFT documents three generations of Pacific Islanders -- from Micronesia, Hawai'i and the Marquesas -- as they construct a coastal outrigger sailing canoe using traditional tools, methods and materials. The film weaves an atmosphere of quiet beauty and reverence. No visible trappings of the modern world appear in the unfolding scenes that evoke pre-contact Polynesia, a time when master carvers sharpened their rudimentary tools on whetstones and crafted vessels that carried them to neighboring islands and to the far corners of the Pacific. The building of Mauloa was filmed in semi-slow motion. The altered speed and golden images that unfold on the screen create a unique sense of timelessness. Nothing of the modern world exists in the footage - no power tools, t-shirts or sunglasses. All of the scenes evoke pre-contact Polynesia; from sharpening the stone adzes on a whetstone, to staining the koa hull with kukui nut oil. This method of filming carries viewers back to the time when the ancestors of today's Polynesians crafted their canoes with grace and artistry, while respecting solemn ritual and ancient tradition
Notes Title from resource description page (viewed December 13, 2019)
Performer Narrator, Shawna Alapa'i
Notes In English
Subject Canoes and canoeing -- Oceania -- History
Canoes and canoeing.
SUBJECT Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96047454
Micronesia (Federated States) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83074223
Hawaii. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80061028
Hawaii https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006254
Subject French Polynesia -- Marquesas Islands.
Hawaii.
Micronesia (Federated States)
Oceania.
Genre/Form Documentary films.
History.
Documentary films.
Documentaires.
Form Streaming video
Author Evenari, Gail, director, producer
Alapa'i, Shawna, narrator
Maiden Voyage Productions, production company.
Other Titles Building Mauloa : a Pacific Island outrigger canoe