Cane Fire

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USA, 2020, 90 min

Directed by:

Anthony Banua-Simon

Screenplay:

Anthony Banua-Simon

Cinematography:

Anthony Banua-Simon

Composer:

Mike Cooper

Cast:

Anthony Banua-Simon, Lex Barker (a.f.), Joan Blackman (a.f.), Mari Blanchard (a.f.), Pierce Brosnan (a.f.), Bing Crosby (a.f.), Beverly Garland (a.f.) (more)
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The Hawaiian island of Kauaʻi is seen by many as a paradise of leisure and pristine natural beauty, but these escapist fantasies obscure the colonial displacement, hyperexploitation of workers, and destructive environmental extraction that have actually shaped life on the island for the last 250 years. This illuminating documentary critically examines the island’s history - and the various strategies by which Hollywood has represented it - through four generations of director Anthony Banua-Simon’s family, who first immigrated to Kauaʻi from the Philippines to work on the sugar plantations. Assembled from a diverse array of sources - from Banua-Simon’s observational footage to amateur YouTube travelogues to epic Hollywood musical sequences - Cane Fire offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of the economic and cultural forces that have cast Indigenous and working-class residents as “extras” in their own story. (Criterion)

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Soundtracks

Cane Fire

Cane Fire


Label: Room40

Year: 2021

Country: Australia

Format: digital

Length: 39:28

Tracklist
1. Alohabama New Mix Mike Cooper 01:22
2. Cane Fire Extra Rum Mike Cooper 02:33
3. An Aesthetic Of Birdless Calls Mike Cooper 04:58
4. Caught Inside More Sugar Mike Cooper 03:15
5. Mike Ohe New Substitute Mike Cooper 04:30
6. Cane Fire Four (Sakam Kava) Mike Cooper 07:32
7. New Cane Fire Hula Mike Cooper 02:45
8. New Mask Of Flesh Mike Cooper 04:31
9. New Cane Fire Hula Number Two Mike Cooper 02:27
10. The Hunter Has A Lonely Heart Mike Cooper 03:15
11. An Acoustic Sleepwalk Mike Cooper 02:20