Video Pasifika Documentaries

[_byron]

I am addicted to watching videos from our lovely kava growing islands. I wanted to make this thread for some nice island leisure documentary watching.

 

[nashfire]

Cool! Great thread...I'd rather go down the "watchin' vids online" here than straight up YT! Bula!

 

[_byron]

A Vlog of Mele a town outside of Port Vila by about 10 min.

 

[kastom_lif]

Torba!

 

[_byron]

This one is sooo good. A kava farmer comes to the island to harvest kava at some point

 

[The Kap'n]

Torba!

and he runs away. lol. I love that video.

 

[kastom_lif]

Bamboo Band culture stretches all the way from Bougainville, through the Solomon Islands, and down to Vanuatu.

 

[kastom_lif]

Attention, tous les francophones... @Krunkie McKrunkface

 

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[kastom_lif]

Tetepare island, in Western Province, Solomon Islands, is the largest uninhabited island in the South Pacific. The descendants of Tetepare people live on nearby Rendova now.


There's a person on reddit who grew up on Rendova, and she's got some stories and photos:





Rendova island also happens to be where John F. Kennedy's torpedo boat, PT-109, was based before it got sank... though the PT boat base was up on the north end of Rendova, not down south next to Tetepare.

 

[_byron]

Narrator keeps calling kava "hallucinogenic" SMH... But overall still very interesting videos

 

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[The Kap'n]

In case you think we're getting tired of these, we're not! Keep up the good work!

 

[kastom_lif]

(Kiai video)

I looked up where Kiai is located out of curiosity. Kiai is the the tok peles word for their language, though some sources such as Ethnologue list it as "Fortsenal," named after a village.

The Kiai-speaking area is highlighted here, on Alex Francois' map. They're about as middle of the middle bush as you can get! Pretty cool.

 

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