Albert Alcalay: Self Portraits
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"Albert Alcalay: Self Portraits" reflects upon the extraordinary life and engaging personality of former Harvard faculty member Albert Alcalay through a candid first-person look at his development as an artist. Forced into a life of hiding as a Serbian Jew while hunted by Nazis in Fascist Italy during World War II, Alcalay was eventually captured and sent to a concentration camp, where he was inspired by a fellow prisoner to study painting. After the war, he immigrated to the United States, where he has lived and worked in Boston ever since. The documentary examines the ways in which Alcalay's artistic language has been shaped by the American landscape, by memory and by loss. Although well into his 80s and dealing with the effects of macular degeneration (loss of eyesight), the inspirational Alcalay no longer teaches, but he continues to paint vibrant landscapes in which "lament... is transfigured into praise of life."
Albert Alcalay: Self Portraits
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