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with Professor Robert
Ascher, Anthropology
A young boy's idyllic life is forever
changed when an oil refinery arrives in his rural Louisiana town
in this award-winning film by acclaimed director Robert Flaherty.
Flaherty's superb eye captures the differences between the raw
beauty of the bayou and the dirt, steel, and smoke of the drilling
platforms. A virtuosic meditation on man's relationship to the
environment, made all the more fascinating because it was financed
by a major oil company. This beautifully restored 35mm print
is not to be missed.
Reception in Willard
Straight Art Gallery Following the Screening
This screening is made possible
with the support of Cornell Cinema and the Department of American
Studies.
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