Wern’s World! Excellent! Party Time!

Look into the eyes of a chicken and contemplate it’s incredible, savage stupidity. Look at the chicken through the eyes of Werner Herzog and discover how artistic observation can create poetry from that stupidity. If civilization is only a thin veil over a yawning chaotic ocean, and that ocean defined by the monsters lurking in the dark, where would we be without art? Pull your own riverboat over a mountain and join us as we explore the life and films of Werner Herzog, a man who said he would travel to hell to rescue a film from the devil.

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Look into the eyes of a chicken and contemplate it’s incredible, savage stupidity. Look at the chicken through the eyes of Werner Herzog and discover how artistic observation can create poetry from that stupidity. If civilization is only a thin veil over a yawning chaotic ocean, and that ocean defined by the monsters lurking in the dark, where would we be without art? Pull your own riverboat over a mountain and join us as we explore the life and films of Werner Herzog, a man who said he would travel to hell to rescue a film from the devil.

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Further Reading

Werner’s World by Michael Atkinson on Criterion.com

Werner Herzog - A Guide for the Perplexed: Conversations with Paul Cronin on GoodReads

Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo by Werner Herzog and Krishna Wilson on GoodReads

Roger Ebert discusses: Grizzly Man, Aguirre, The Wrath of God, Stroszek, Fitzcarraldo, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, and My Best Friend.

A discussion of Encounters at the End of the World by Craig Lindsey on AV Club