William Kurelek’s The Maze
Wednesday, September 19, 2012 – 7:30pm
USA 19692011. Directors: Robert M Young, David Grubin [Re-imagined by Nick Young, Zack Young]
Canadian painter William Kurelek (1927-1977) may be best known for his beautiful illustrations of bucolic children’s classics (Who Has Seen the Wind?, A Prairie Boy’s Winter) and his landscapes of Ukrainian-Canadian prairie life, but it is his disturbing early work and difficult upbringing that is the subject of this intriguing documentary.
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