PREY (film still), 2022. Photo: David Bukach © 2022 20th Century Studios. All Rights Reserved
Halloween at Getty: PREY Screening and Discussion
GETTY CENTER
Friday, October 25, 2024, at 6:30 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium
Advance ticket required
Join us before the screening for popcorn and spooky treats!
The first feature film to be entirely dubbed in Comanche, PREY (dir. Dan Trachtenberg, 2022) follows a young woman, Naru, tasked with protecting her people from colonizing French fur traders as well as from Mupitsi—a human-hunting alien Predator. For this prequel in the Predator franchise, producer Jhane Myers (Comanche/Blackfeet) worked closely with the production team to ensure the casting, plot, and language were deeply informed by Indigenous storytellers.
Following a screening of the Comanche language dub of the film, Jhane Myers, scholar Dr. Eric Tippeconnic (Comanche), and artist Virgil Ortiz (Cochiti Pueblo) will discuss science fiction, Indigenous storytelling, and using art to preserve endangered languages and cultures. This program complements the Getty Scholars Program's 2024–2025 annual theme of extinction, which focuses on research topics exploring that which is lost but also the urgent impulse toward preservation and permanence.
Jhane Myers is the producer of PREY as well as a Sundance/Time Warner Storyteller Fellow (2018) and Producer Fellow (2017). Myers is a Comanche and Blackfeet American Indian and a 5th-generation award-winning doll maker, jeweler, regalia maker, and fashion designer.
Eric Tippeconnic, PhD, is a practicing artist and assistant professor of American Indian Studies at California State University, San Marcos. He is an enrolled member of the Comanche Nation and the first Comanche to receive a PhD in the field of history.
Virgil Ortiz's artistry extends across various media and boundaries, influenced by his family of renowned Cochiti Pueblo potters and fusing his Pueblo culture with sci-fi, fantasy, and apocalyptic themes. Ortiz's mission is to teach Pueblo history and create global awareness that Pueblo communities are alive and have a level of vitality that speaks to generations of strength, persistence, brilliance, and thriving energy. His works have been exhibited in the Design Museum den Bosch, Fondation Cartier pour L'art contemporain, Triennale Milano, Smithsonian Institution, Denver Art Museum, Colby Museum of Art, Vladem Contemporary, and recently, the Autry Museum of the American West as part of PST ART: Art & Science Collide.
DIRECTED BY: Dan Trachtenberg. WRITTEN BY: Patrick Aison. WITH: Amber Midthunder, Dakota Beavers, Stormee Kipp. 2022. 99 min. Color. Comanche with English subtitles. DVD.
This program is part of the Art on Screen series, which celebrates moving-image media and its intersection with art and art histories.
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