In person: Werner Herzog
In person: Werner Herzog
After months of delving deep into Werner Herzog's body of work, we're thrilled to announce that the maestro himself will be present at Eye. Tonight, in a comprehensive discussion featuring Eye director Bregtje van der Haak, Head of Exhibitions Jaap Guldemond, and programmer Thijs Havens, you'll have the opportunity to uncover all the insights you've ever wanted to know about the striking filmmaker.
In his work, Herzog seeks out those places on our planet that seem most other-worldly. He points his camera at people who live and survive in extreme circumstances – from scientists in Antarctica to child soldiers. The filmmaker feels a great affinity with the dreamers, obsessives, the solitary rebels and the marginalised, who for whatever reasons stray from the well-trodden path.
About Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog (1942, Munich) made his first film at the age of 19. Since then he has completed more than 70 films, and is still active today from his current base in Los Angeles: as well making films he is involved in acting, writing, directing opera and the Rogue Film School, which he set up. Films such as Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen (1971) and Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (1972) established him as one of the most important post-war German filmmakers alongside Wim Wenders and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Films including Nosferatu (1979), Fitzcarraldo (1982), Lektionen in Finsternis (1992) and Mein liebster Feind (1999) deservedly occupy a special place in international independent film history. Herzog’s work has won many awards, and it would not be far-fetched to say that ‘Herzogian’ has become a genre in itself: epic, compelling, uncompromising and unmistakably twentieth-century.
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Production year
2023
Length
105 min.
Event language
English
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Werner Herzog
Eye Filmmuseum presents an exhibition and extensive film programme around the work of celebrated filmmaker Werner Herzog. With an unorthodox oeuvre of more than seventy features, documentaries and shorts, Herzog has fascinated audiences with unforgettable stories, images and characters for more than half a century. His films grant us insights into the relationship between people and the chaotic world around them, as well as into the endless indifference of nature towards human life.
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