Angelique Kalani Axelrode

On Oʻahu, a college student’s suppressed desire for her best friend forces them both on a sugar daddy date with a wealthy ex-military man turned artist, where desire and power unravel each other.

L’Apprenante is an American college student in the process of “finding herself abroad” in Paris. She takes French classes to immerse herself in the culture, even though her accent is tragique. In one particular class, she struggles to recount her weekend where she goes to a Parisian party and meets La Femme; a girl she is immediately drawn to.

Through layers of space, time and memory across the ocean and ʻāina (land) on Maui, a diasporic Kānaka (Hawaiian) remembers how to connect back to themselves, their family and their lover.

Two sisters, Gigi and Angi, sit silently in the car on the way to surf, refusing to speak to each other. Their tiff continues as they get ready to paddle out. As tension builds, the narrative shifts to a dance inspired by the story of Hi‘iakaikapoliopele and her older sister, Pele. When the tumultuous journey of Pele and Hi‘iaka comes to a close and the two reconcile, Gigi and Angi reconnect to each other and enjoy their morning surf.

A younger sibling sneaks their brother out of a burn unit in a California psychiatric ward, going on a journey that involves cigarettes, ice cream and video game worlds as they chase an impossible plan to rowboat home to Hawai‘i, drifting further into a dream neither can hold onto.

Through painting, poetry, and film, artist Dan Taulapapa McMullin disrupts colonial narratives by reimagining archival documentation and queer Pasifika history. For McMullin, the archive is not a static repository of the past but a living, evolving site of resistance, imagination, and survival– one that unsettles dominant histories and opens space for new possibilities.

On Oʻahu, a college student’s suppressed desire for her best friend forces them both on a sugar daddy date with a wealthy ex-military man turned artist, where desire and power unravel each other.

On Oʻahu, a college student’s suppressed desire for her best friend forces them both on a sugar daddy date with a wealthy ex-military man turned artist, where desire and power unravel each other.

On Oʻahu, a college student’s suppressed desire for her best friend forces them both on a sugar daddy date with a wealthy ex-military man turned artist, where desire and power unravel each other.

L’Apprenante is an American college student in the process of “finding herself abroad” in Paris. She takes French classes to immerse herself in the culture, even though her accent is tragique. In one particular class, she struggles to recount her weekend where she goes to a Parisian party and meets La Femme; a girl she is immediately drawn to.

L’Apprenante is an American college student in the process of “finding herself abroad” in Paris. She takes French classes to immerse herself in the culture, even though her accent is tragique. In one particular class, she struggles to recount her weekend where she goes to a Parisian party and meets La Femme; a girl she is immediately drawn to.

L’Apprenante is an American college student in the process of “finding herself abroad” in Paris. She takes French classes to immerse herself in the culture, even though her accent is tragique. In one particular class, she struggles to recount her weekend where she goes to a Parisian party and meets La Femme; a girl she is immediately drawn to.

Through layers of space, time and memory across the ocean and ʻāina (land) on Maui, a diasporic Kānaka (Hawaiian) remembers how to connect back to themselves, their family and their lover.

Two sisters, Gigi and Angi, sit silently in the car on the way to surf, refusing to speak to each other. Their tiff continues as they get ready to paddle out. As tension builds, the narrative shifts to a dance inspired by the story of Hi‘iakaikapoliopele and her older sister, Pele. When the tumultuous journey of Pele and Hi‘iaka comes to a close and the two reconcile, Gigi and Angi reconnect to each other and enjoy their morning surf.

Two sisters, Gigi and Angi, sit silently in the car on the way to surf, refusing to speak to each other. Their tiff continues as they get ready to paddle out. As tension builds, the narrative shifts to a dance inspired by the story of Hi‘iakaikapoliopele and her older sister, Pele. When the tumultuous journey of Pele and Hi‘iaka comes to a close and the two reconcile, Gigi and Angi reconnect to each other and enjoy their morning surf.

A younger sibling sneaks their brother out of a burn unit in a California psychiatric ward, going on a journey that involves cigarettes, ice cream and video game worlds as they chase an impossible plan to rowboat home to Hawai‘i, drifting further into a dream neither can hold onto.

Through painting, poetry, and film, artist Dan Taulapapa McMullin disrupts colonial narratives by reimagining archival documentation and queer Pasifika history. For McMullin, the archive is not a static repository of the past but a living, evolving site of resistance, imagination, and survival– one that unsettles dominant histories and opens space for new possibilities.