THE ARTS DESK

Arts

Reporting, analysis and criticism selected for today’s edition.

Papua New Guinea’s film archive is a race against climate and forgetting

A still from a Papua New Guinean film held in the national collection

Saving 1,300 reels is technical work, cultural restitution and a decision about who controls a nation’s visual memory.

Archivists in Goroka are working to preserve vulnerable film and tape before heat and humidity make more of the collection unreadable.

Jules Hart4 MIN

ARTS EDITOR’S NOTE

The art of today’s edition is listening closely

From Icelandic composition to Papua New Guinean archives and Cronenberg’s cinema, the arts pages follow work that changes meaning when context is restored.

A short editor’s guide to today’s arts and criticism package.

Jules Hart3 MIN

End of today’s arts section.