Werner Herzog - Fire & Ice

Dir. Werner Herzog, TRT: 99 min.

Two for the price of one! Come see this rare pairing of Herzog documentaries! Two shorts that demand to be viewed in a darkened theater.

Program:

LESSONS OF DARKNESS

Dir. Werner Herzog, 1992, Germany, 54 min.

"Herzog’s gripping documentary shows the disaster of the Kuwaitian oil fields in flames. In contrast to most docs — especially ones tackling the destruction of the planet — there are no comments and few interviews. The hell itself is presented to the viewer in such beautiful sights and sweeping music that one becomes almost entranced by it, and nearly forgets that the burning horizon is the possible harbinger of an apocalypse…"

-AGFA

DARK GLOW OF THE MOUNTAINS

Dir. Werner Herzog, 1985, Germany, 45 min.

"Impossible expeditions are nothing new to arthouse cinema titan Werner Herzog (NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE), and his 1985 documentary THE DARK GLOW OF THE MOUNTAINS stands near the top of his list of incredible feats. Mountaineers Hans Kammerlander and Reinhold Messner are accompanied by the director as they climb to the peaks of the Gasherbrum mountains, reflecting on their prior accomplishments and how the activity they love may very well kill them someday. Capturing both the jaw-dropping beauty of their surroundings and the intimate conversations had by men living on the edge of experience, THE DARK GLOW OF THE MOUNTAINS is another essential snapshot of the human condition from cinema’s most daring explorer."

-AGFA