Students made the first film about Llhuros

In 1972, during the premiere exhibition of The Civilization of Llhuros at Cornell University’s Andrew D. White Museum of Art, a 16mm film was created by a group of students. This discovery, fifty years later, is vital as the only known film/video documentation of the first installation. It has recently been converted to a digital format and presented here with added commentary on the Norman Daly Art YouTube channel. [19:02]

Norman Daly’s CIVILIZATION OF LLHUROS. A.D. White Museum of Art, 1972. ©1972-2026 Norman Daly Art

Special thanks to former Cornell student Kells Elmquist who kept the original film in his basement for 50 years, to Kirk Barber of Sunray Video–San Diego for conversion, and to Marilyn Rivchin for assistance in optimizing the digital version for online presentation.

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