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Beyond Mother Tongue

• Running time: 7 min., 49 sec.
• Aspect ratio: 4:3
• 2009

 Filmed in the surreal landscape of Hawaii’s Volcanoes National Park lava fields, this poetic tale follows a daughter’s journey of spiritual awakening as she ventures outside the pendulum of secular timekeeping onto the topographically tortured borderlands of purgatory. Stripped of pretension, she holds a mirror up to her crumbling façade and in the process discovers newfound humility and gratitude for all the gifts her mother bestowed upon her.