Friday, October 30, 7:45 p.m.
Koret Auditorium
de Young Museum, San Francisco

The de Young is proud to host the world premiere of two documentary shorts filmed in PNG and commissioned by the Jolika Collection of New Guinea Art: The Shield Is My Brother and The Man Who Cannot Die. The first film tells the story of young men learning the art of shield-making for the first time. The second film features Kaipel Ka, a contemporary artist who paints comic book characters and corporate logos on traditional war shields, melding images from global popular culture with indigenous shield-making practices. A question-and-answer session with filmmaker Mark Eby will follow.