Military Fatigues
presented by UnderCurrents

April 18, 2026
6:30pm

Aupuni Space is pleased to support Military Fatigues, a program of words and films connecting Hawaiʻi, Guåhan, and Palestine, presented by UNDERCURRENTS.

6:30 PM: reading from “The Shape of the Sky” by Siobhon Rumurang
6:45 PM: screening of DIGITAL CAMOUFLAGE (Alfred Bordallo, 2024) and A STONE’S THROW (Razan AlSalah, 2024) (total runtime: 70 min.)
8:00 PM: Q&A with Alfred Bordallo, moderated by Emerson Goo

How do we chronicle the degradation of the environment through militarization? How does the infrastructure of warfare and occupation become part of everyday life? These films blend personal histories and sociopolitical analysis, assembling a counter-archive of military activities. In DIGITAL CAMOUFLAGE, Alfred Bordallo glitches the history of Guam into a polemic against its instrumentalization as a US base, reimagining the ways that CHamoru people have resisted and existed under American imperialism. A STONE’S THROW follows Amine, a Palestinian elder, who is exiled twice from land and labor — from Haifa to Beirut to a Gulf offshore oil platform. Through his story, Razan AlSalah narrates a semi-aqueous history of labor, tourism, and revolt that spans the Gulf and centers Palestine as a wellspring of resistance against petrocolonial infrastructures.

Alfred Bordallo is a Chamoru visual artist from Guåhan currently based in Los Angeles. His work focuses on recollecting and honoring the fragmented and, more importantly, repurposed facets of Chamoru identity through the analog mediums of photography and video. Bordallo’s self-taught practice began in 2018 while attending the University of Southern California, and has since grown into editorial shoots for fashion and music, live-visual (VJ) sets accompanied with lo-fi hip-hop, and to video art installations that interrogate CHamoru identity within the context of indigeneity, diaspora, and imperialism.

Siobhon Rumurang is a Chamoru Palauan writer, artist, and educator from Guåhan. Her work moves through the long aftermaths of war and dispossession in the Pacific. As a 2020 NDN Collective Changemaker Fellow, Siobhon helped co-develop the founding curriculum for a trades and lifeways school in the Marianas, blending vocational training with Indigenous Chamoru and Micronesian knowledge sharing. From 2017 to 2020, she worked as an educator and curriculum writer, contributing to Chamoru-centered textbooks and cultural programs. She currently serves as Director of Communications at Nihi Indigenous Media, where she writes and produces collaborative storytelling projects — documentary, animation, and digital media — uplifting the Marianas and Micronesia.

Razan AlSalah is a Palestinian filmmaker, programmer and teacher based in Tiotiake/Montreal. Her work investigates the material aesthetics of disappearance of indigenous bodies, narratives and histories in colonial image worlds. Her films are both ghostly trespasses and seeping ruptures of the colonial image, that functions as another border, another wall. She thinks of her creative process as a collective recollection in a circle of relations with one another — and the unknown. Her films have screened at Cinema Days Palestine (Sunbird Award for Best Short 2017), RIDM (Best National Short or Medium Length Film 2024), doc Lisboa, FIDMarseille, Prismatic Ground, Yamagata and Taiwan International Documentary Film Festivals, Blackstar, Open City Docs London, and Singapore, Valdivia, Melbourne, Glasgow and Beirut International, among others. Razan is a member of Regards Palestiniens film collective and teaches film at Concordia University.