https://pixelstortion.com/songs/nalani-mataala-tides-of-war https://i.ytimg.com/vi/BaEDmidh2fg/maxresdefault.jpg Tides of War by Nalani Tides of War: a soft, almost elegiac opening, the first traders on the horizon while the island still dances and Nalani reads the hunger behind their silk and lies. A cinematic short film from Mataala. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/BaEDmidh2fg 2025-07-06T00:00:00+00:00 yes https://pixelstortion.com/songs/nalani-mataala-my-island-school https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AD63pqPSdPs/maxresdefault.jpg My Island School by Nalani My Island School: a powerful story arc, a girl in a mission schoolroom learns the colonizer’s language and laws to use them back, rowing too far to ever be kept. A cinematic short film from Mataala. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/AD63pqPSdPs 2025-08-18T00:00:00+00:00 yes https://pixelstortion.com/songs/nalani-mataala-born-for-storms https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Bqwv8iOsosE/maxresdefault.jpg Born For Storms by Nalani Born For Storms: too loud, too sharp, made for war and trust, the storm that waits then burns the sky. A cinematic music video and short film from Mataala, a 19th-century Polynesian historical fiction. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Bqwv8iOsosE 2025-03-31T00:00:00+00:00 yes https://pixelstortion.com/songs/nalani-mataala-silent-watcher https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8XbCkq59YJc/maxresdefault.jpg Silent Watcher by Nalani Silent Watcher: an overseer’s hand draws the maps and borders, an island marked for a quiet fate, until the jungle answers. A cinematic music video and short film from Mataala, an anti-colonial Polynesian historical fiction. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/8XbCkq59YJc 2025-03-31T00:00:00+00:00 yes https://pixelstortion.com/songs/nalani-mataala-blades-of-war https://i.ytimg.com/vi/SpgAuLxiBzI/maxresdefault.jpg Blades of War by Nalani Blades of War: a lone tribal drum opens hard and spaced, two forces meet on the sand, no kings, no names, just ash and flame, an ending that turns heavy and metal-tinged. A cinematic song from Mataala. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/SpgAuLxiBzI 2025-07-29T00:00:00+00:00 yes https://pixelstortion.com/songs/nalani-mataala-short-film https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Q6ZG0QXUD44/maxresdefault.jpg Mataala: A Short Film Mataala, a short film: Turnbull arrives with ambitious plans for the island; Nalani, magnetic and articulate, refuses to be swayed. A 19th-century Polynesian historical fiction. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Q6ZG0QXUD44 2025-01-24T00:00:00+00:00 yes