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California College of the Arts (SF)

February 5 - February 5, 2010

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Screening: When the Pueblo was Hollywood Gauchos and their horses in northern Argentina
When the Pueblo was Hollywood (Cuando el Pueblo fue Hollywood), 2009 In Spanish with English subtitles, 50 min. Directed by Federico Windhausen (Assistant Professor of Media Arts, Visual Studies, and Fine Arts at California College of the Arts) Shot by Rubén Guzmán (filmmaker; cameraman on Cowards Bend the Knee and The Saddest Music in the World) When the Pueblo was Hollywood discloses a kind of waking dream experienced collectively by the residents of Salta, an Argentine province located at the foothills of the Andes. In 1961, this remote area of northwestern Argentina was chosen as the primary location for a large-scale Hollywood adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's novel Taras Bulba, bringing to Salta actors such as Tony Curtis and Yul Brynner. The documentary focuses not on the movie stars, however, but rather on the thousands of locals who were hired as extras and dressed up as 16th-century Cossacks, Turks, and Poles. The film is both a chronicle of a unique cultural encounter and a portrait of a fading generation of Salteños. Documentary website: http://tarasbulbasalta.blogspot.com/ Radio version: http://www.studio360.org/episodes/2008/01/11 Screening information: February 5, 7 p.m. Timken Auditorium, CCA main building 1111 Eighth St. (between Hooper & Irwin) San Francisco (415) 551-9240 Free and open to the public.