Professor Johannes DeYoung exhibits his video “Diamond Head (Laeahi)” at the DEFY Film Festival in Nashville, TN, August 20-21. In its sixth year, the festival champions films that tread new ground, reinvent process, turn storytelling tropes on their heads, and forge new paths in cinema. DeYoung’s work blends hand painted and algorithmic processes in a poetic narrative inspired by the histories, allegories, visual mysteries, and polymorphic natural forms of ancient and contemporary Laeahi.