The Yellow House of Arrecife hosted this Wednesday the inauguration of the exhibition "Celluloid Landscape. Cinema shot in Lanzarote", a journey through time through all the films that have taken the natural landscape of the island as a stage. This exhibition is part of the events of the 8th Biennial LanzARoTe Meeting of the Art, Culture and Tourism Centers.
The event was attended by the president of the Cabildo, Pedro San Ginés, who pointed out that "Lanzarote has recently renewed its commitment with the 'Film Commission' to launch the island as a filming stage" and also took the opportunity to invite all Lanzarote residents "to learn about this practically unknown facet of the island".
The exhibition is organized by the Data Center, belonging to the Presidency area of the Cabildo, which is directed by the councilor Luis Arráez, who also did not want to miss this historical review of the feature films shot on the island. He was accompanied by the councilors of Tourism and Culture, Echedey Eugenio and Óscar Pérez, respectively.
This exhibition, according to Arminda Arteta, one of the curators, has different sections that include almost fifty fiction shoots that took place on the island from 1965, with the first film "Prettier than anyone". However, it was the same year, with "One Million Years Ago", when Lanzarote had its world projection as a cinematographic setting given the quality of the landscape and the climatic conditions.
In the exhibition you can enjoy photographic, documentary material, as well as fragments of the films themselves, and a special space dedicated to "Mararía and Heraclio Niz, the chicken from Arrecife and actor who participated in numerous films.