ʻUluʻulu Hawaii's official state archive for moving images.

The month of November is Native American Heritage Month. For this month we are focusing on one of the few full-length programs we have that focuses on the Native American Community. While this program, "The Salt Song Trail: Bringing Creation Back Together," is not focused in Hawaiʻi, it was produced by Juniroa, a Hawaiʻi-based filmmaking team, and now, one of our founding collections. This program examines a Paiute community's revival of the practice of singing Salt Songs, a tradition that had been long suppressed by the influence of Boarding Schools created to force Native Americans to abandon their indigenous identities and practices. Learn more by stopping by to visit us and watch this compelling special in our exhibit space, or contact us directly to stream! #archives #movingimagearchive #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth #uluulumovingimagearchive

Ask us questions about what you want to know about ʻUluʻulu Archive! Have you ever wondered how many reels and tapes we have in our vault? What the oldest or most recent items in our collection are? Why we do what we do? How bad can decay of AV materials reeallly get? Ask us, in the comments below, what you want to know about our work and our archive, and weʻll do our best to answer you throughout the day and weʻll put the answers together to share with you in a later post. Happy Wednesday! #movingimagearchive #archivistlife #archives #weloveourjobs #uluulumovingimagearchive #americanarchivesmonth #askanarchivistday2020 #askanarchivistday2024 #askanarchivistday #AskAnArchivistDay

We have the good fortune of working with filmmakers and storytellers throughout the year. But it's always a real lift to see some of those films show up at Hawai‘i International Film Festival! This year there are three films on the schedule. Yes, we know most of the festival has wrapped up, and apologies as we've been engrossed in all the movie-watching! Our own presentation of "Hawaiʻi Ponoʻi 1970," of course, came from our collection. But we were able to help the filmmakers that put together the documentaries "Shaka, A Story of Aloha" and "Standing Above the Clouds" this year, as well. Both films made use of an outstanding amount of archival footage to create and enhance stories they shared about life in Hawaiʻi now. We're grateful to have been one of the archives that was able to add to the storytelling in the works by both of these teams. Thank you for seeing the importance of telling stories well and validating the work of the many archives around Hawaiʻi! And how fortuitous it is for us that HIFF is again falling during American Archives Month so that we can highlight Archival contribution to current times! Please check out the schedule at https://hiff.org/ Hawaiʻi Ponoʻi 1970 and Shaka, A Story of Aloha - have screenings left on Oʻahu! And both Shaka and Standing Above the Clouds will be screening on neighbor islands soon!