
A 1997 documentary by Micronesian scholar, Vicente M. Diaz, that follows a new generation of traditional outrigger canoe builders and navigators from Polowat, Central Carolines, Federated States of Micronesia, and Guam in their respective efforts to continue and resuscitate an ancient tradition of outrigger canoe carving and sailing in the late twentieth century. Like the motif of water that flows through the documentary and blurs lines between surface and depth, and between water, land and air, an indefatigable tradition and aesthetic of seafaring is shown to also challenge pat and problematic distinctions between past and present, tradition and modernity, indigenous and Christian religiosity and spirituality, that prevail in conventional understandings of Micronesian culture and history.

Mururoa 1973

Around My Island

Der wilde Pazifik - Die Schönheit des Lebens

Women & the Wind

Three Arts in Antarctica

Dawn of the Great Steppe

Kon-Tiki

Golden Door

Becoming Cousteau

The Young Man and the Deep Sea

Buddha Wild: Monk in a Hut

Puerto escondido

Under the Hull: an 11th Hour Racing Team Documentary

Nauru, an Island Adrift

On the Track of Robert Van Gulik

Mar em Mim

Shaping Bamboo

Voyages au centre de la Terre : Dans les pas de Jules Verne

Island Soldier

Los conquistadores del Pacífico