Ainikien Jidjid ilo Boñ, and: Batmon vs Majuro, and: Jilel: The Calling of the Shell, and: Lañinbwil’s Gift, and: Ña Noniep, and: Yokwe Bartowe
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Abstract
Reviewed by: Ainikien Jidjid ilo Boñ, and: Batmon vs Majuro, and: Jilel: The Calling of the Shell, and: Lañinbwil’s Gift, and: Ña Noniep, and: Yokwe Bartowe Tom Brislin Ainikien Jidjid ilo Boñ. dvd, 80 minutes, color, 2012. In Marshallese with English subtitles. Produced, written, and directed by Jack Niedenthal, Suzanne Chutaro, and Jukulius Niedenthal. Batmon vs Majuro. dvd, 80 minutes, color, 2017. In Marshallese with English subtitles. Directed and produced by Jack Niedenthal, Ben deBrum Wakefield, and Vivian Niedenthal. Written by Jack Niedenthal and Ben deBrum Wakefield. Jilel: The Calling of the Shell. dvd, 78 minutes, color, 2015. In Marshal-lese with English subtitles. Produced, written, and directed by Jack Niedenthal, Suzanne Chutaro, and Jukulius Niedenthal. Lañinbwil’s Gift. dvd, 99 minutes, color, 2011. In Marshallese with English subtitles. Produced, written, and directed by Jack Niedenthal, Suzanne Chutaro, and Jukulius Niedenthal. Ña Noniep. dvd, 108 minutes, color, 2009. In Marshallese with English subtitles. Produced, written, and directed by Jack Niedenthal, Suzanne Chutaro, and Jukulius Niedenthal. Yokwe Bartowe. dvd, 90 minutes, color, 2010. In Marshallese and English. Produced, written, and directed by Jack Niedenthal, Suzanne Chutaro, and Jukulius Niedenthal. All films distributed by Microwave Films and available for purchase from www.microwavefilms.org. United States and Canada, us$9.99; all other countries us$16.99. [End Page 588] Jack Niedenthal, when discussing his films at festivals in Hawai‘i and Guam, enjoys telling the story of perusing rental video titles at the E-Z PriceMart on the Marshallese atoll of Majuro in 2008 when his eleven-year-old son, Max, asked, “Dad, how come there are no films in Marshallese?” A good question, he said. So he set out to make one. “Imagine growing up all your life,” he would continue, “never seeing a film in your own language, set in your own country, dealing with issues and values that are unique to your own culture.” During filmmaker panels, Niedenthal balks at describing the process as reinventing himself. “I’ve always been a storyteller,” he says. “Now I’ve become one with a camera.” Niedenthal first arrived in the Marshalls twenty-seven years earlier as a Peace Corps volunteer. He learned the language and legends of the community of atolls and islands the indigenous inhabitants call “jolet jen Anji” (gifts from God). On Kili he married into the diaspora of Bikinians displaced by nuclear testing, becoming their Trust Liaison to the United States. His rich store of Marshallese mythology and folklore was now supplemented by stark contemporary tales of a people’s deprivation of homeland, body, and spirit. Niedenthal’s first cinematic venture was Ña Noniep, a tale of middle-school student friends Liki and Miko, whose budding romance is put on the skids when an auto accident kills Miko’s family. Although not to blame, Liki’s father was the driver of the other car. Nonetheless, Miko’s grandmother, Lijimu, places Liki under an evil spell. The noniep, an invisible but persistent sprite, works hard to protect Liki and to try to break the spell. Nonieps are youthful spirits, however, and don’t have the full powers of a rianijij, or sorceress, like Lijimu. Miko’s love for both Liki and her grandmother, combined with the noniep’s benevolence, creates the power to convince Lijimu to lift the curse and accept Liki and his family into hers. The themes of good and evil, young love thwarted and reunited, revenge, and redemption carry the story well beyond the Marshall Islands’ borders and earned the film a nomination in the 2009 International Youth Film Festival. Ña Noniep played for three weeks to turn-away crowds at the lone Majuro theater. dvd copies were greedily consumed on the outer islands and by the Marshallese expat community in Arkansas. Randon Jack and Lulani Ritok, who played Liki and Miko, became Island celebrities. Although almost archetypically grandmotherly, with a bright sense of humor, Netha Gideon became regarded as the real Lijimu, with Islanders crossing the street to avoid her and sharing anxious whispers about her reputed magical abilities. Niedenthal accomplished all of this [End Page 589] in a microbudget diy filmmaking style using a standard definition prosumer camera, available and ambient...
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.607 | 0.350 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".