• William Kurelek’s life is well documented. Two versions of his autobiography, Someone with Me, have been published, and his substantial archives are today held at Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa. Kurelek was a man of great interest to others. His life and art were chronicled in documentary films, and in Patricia Morley’s book Kurelek: A Biography, which was published in 1986. On this page you will find an audio interview recorded around 1975, and video material pertaining to an expanded and re-mastered version of the classic 1970 documentary The Maze: The Story of William Kurelek.

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In the 1960s, Dr. James Maas, professor of psychology at Cornell University, arranged to have a series of educational films produced for undergraduate psychology students. When Dr. Maas saw William Kurelek’s painting The Maze while visiting London, England, he knew it was an ideal subject for a film. The Maze: The Story of William Kurelek, a thirty-minute documentary by filmmaker Robert Young, was completed in 1970. Over forty years later, the film was reissued as William Kurelek’s The Maze in an expanded and re-mastered form. View the trailer for the film below, and find purchasing options here.

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