Monday, March 28, 2011

Werner Herzog's approach to documentary filmmaking.

Werner Herzog kicks things off by asking me a question: "Did you see the film in 3-D?" Although a "mild skeptic" of the format, he considers it essential to his 28th cinema film,�Cave of Forgotten Dreams, a documentary about the paleolithic artwork discovered by the archaeologist Jean-Marie Chauvet in 1994. The Chauvet cave is full of bulging and irregular shapes, and Herzog says that the painters, who had "a quest for depicting movement," "incorporated the drama of these formations into their art"; for example, a bulge in a rock becomes the neck of a charging bison. "There's a three-dimensional drama which was understood and utilized by people 32,000 years ago," he says. Then, shrugging, he adds: "But I'm told that it looks pretty good in 2-D as well."

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