PHOTOGRAPHY

FOTOWALLS

JOHN STEMBER

A L I E N

Kahaia Howard

fOtOwalls by John Stember 2010

Make-up: Lucille Brunette

Music: Aliens - James Horner

Special Thanks: Radisson Plaza Resort - Tahiti

The story of an ALIEN being from another human race in our galaxy whose space craft had crashed into the Pacific Ocean.  She is the sole survivor and miraculously had washed up on the shore of a remote island in the South Pacific.

Being very afraid of the primitive humans on planet Earth she uses her extraordinary telepathic powers to contact another space craft that is near Earth orbit to come and rescue her and take her back to her home planet in the constellation of the Pleiades.

This is the tenth in a series of 'Dreamscapes' photographed on the black sands of Tahiti during December 2009.

KOYA

Aurelie Lionet

 

 

fOtOwalls by John Stember

 

A young woman's Karate Black Belt training reveals her extraordinary ability to fly so high that she shocks and stuns her opponents. It provides her with a powerful defense against any would be aggressor.

 

However, she discovers that not all her conflicts are external and that she must also master  inner conflicts and negative feelings that reside deep within her being before she can truly find the freedom she seeks.

 

 

 

69

Hanalei Reponty

 

 

fOtOwalls by John Stember

 

'69' is a 'flashback' ... a dream about 'freedom' ... it marks a dramatic departure from the romantic themes of previous 'fOtOfilms' ... it's a bitter-sweet visual poem full of abstract symbolism... as a young woman's dream of life during that turbulent time of 69 are revealed... a time when the western world was immersed in an emotional struggle of peace, love, sex, drugs, rock 'n roll, racism, Nixon and the Vietnam war... a generational clash when revolution was heavy in the air... the biggest anti-war demonstrations in US history were held on the Washington Mall in 1969!!!

AURA

Aurelie

 

fOtOwalls by John Stember

 

A nostalgic story of a young girl's passion for the ballet and the opera, featuring 'La Divina' Maria Callas and two of her most famous performances in Bizet's 'Carmen' and Verdi's 'Don Carlo'. This is the eigth in a series of 'fOtOfilms' - emotional 'Dreamscapes' photographed on the dramatic black sands of Tahiti during May 2009.

 

 

A'AIA

Eyanne

 

fOtOwalls by John Stember

 

A passionate story of young girl's dream about the arrival of the 'HMS Dolphin', the first European ship to arrive in Tahiti in 1767, when the island was claimed by Captain Samuel Wallace and named 'King George's Island' in honor of King George III of Great Britain and Ireland who was the reigning monarch of the time. This is the seventh story in a series of 'fOtOfilms' - emotional 'Dreamscapes' photographed on the dramatic black sands of Tahiti during April 2009. 'A'AIA' is the the Tahitian name for a 'white bird' (tern) which has a an important significance in the ancient Ma'ohi culture as this bird that represents the presence of the 'MANA' ... the all powerful life force highly revered throughout Polynesia ... whilst taking these photographs of Eyanne on the beach in Tahiti, two of these white birds appeared above our heads and circled for several minutes looking down at us ... it was a very good omen for us ... hence the name of this bird became the name of the film. Body painting is primarily associated with Easter Island, the islands of New Guinea and Australia but was not practised in Tahiti ... however as 'A'AIA' is a surreal dream ... artistic license permits it's use here.

 

 

BENE

Benedicte De Vals

 

fOtOwalls by John Stember

 

The dream of one young woman's aspiration to transition from her simple life on the island of 'Tahiti' to the glamour of a new life on the island of 'Manhattan' in New York. This is the sixth in a series of 'fOtOfilms' - emotional 'Dreamscapes' photographed on the dramatic black sands of Tahiti during April 2009.

 

BLACK

Hanalei Reponty

 

fOtOwalls by John Stember

 

This is the fifth in a series of 'fOtOfilms' - an emotional 'Dreamscape' photographed with Hanalei on the dramatic black sands of Tahiti during March 2009. A dream of the ocean and the desire to go to sea in search of new lands in the tradition of the ancient Ma'Ohi or Tahitian navigators who were perhaps the greatest in the world. They regularly sailed thousands of miles from New Zealand to Tahiti, Hawaii and Easter Island without instruments just a superb knowledge of the stars, wind and currents. Thousands of years before the Europeans had ventured far beyond their shores believing the world to be flat and therefore fearful of dropping off the edge.

 

TAPU

Hanalei Reponty and Fabrice Thieblemont

 

fOtOwalls by John Stember

 

 

This is a dream of forbidden love, passion and beauty. The fourth in a series of 'fOtOfilms' - emotional 'Dreamscapes' photographed on the dramatic black sands of Tahiti during March 2009.al 'Dreamscapes' photographed on the dramatic black sands of Tahiti during March 2009.