Fata Morgana is the most abstract and loosely structured of Werner Herzog's films, a bizarre meditation on man's place in an imperfect universe that offers a unique and profoundly moving cinematic experience. Neither documentary nor drama, it is an expressionistic visual poem that, in common with much of Herzog's subsequent output, has an overt On the first day of editing Fata Morgana, Werner Herzog recalls, his editor said: "With this kind of material we have to pretend to invent cinema." And this, Herzog says, is what he tries to do every day. In this second volume of his scenarios, the peerless filmmaker's genius for invention is on clear display. For Werner Herzog, a documentary is an act of adventure. This trek across Africa—during which Herzog and several of the crew were thrown in jail!—is a hallucinatory quest to find man's spot in the universe, mixing pop songs and creation myths into a wonder. Fata Morgana Directed by. Werner Herzog. Awards & Festivals Show all (8 19 April 1971. Running time. 79 minutes. Country. West Germany. Language. German. Fata Morgana is a 1971 film by Werner Herzog, shot in 1968 and 1969, which captures mirages in the Sahara and Sahel deserts. Herzog also wrote the narration by Lotte H. Eisner, which recounts the Mayan creation myth, the Popol Vuh . The original notion of the film was that it would be a science fiction tale, dispatches from the planet Uxmal as told by explorers from Andromeda. (Herzog still holds to that idea, though he would revisit the cinéma-vérité-as-SF concept more overtly with 1992's 54-minute Lessons of Darkness, paired with Fata Morgana on the Anchor Bay DVD For Werner Herzog, a documentary is an act of adventure. This trek across Africa—during which Herzog and several of the crew were thrown in jail!—is a hallucinatory quest to find man's spot in the universe, mixing pop songs and creation myths into a wonder. Fata Morgana Directed by. Werner Herzog. Awards & Festivals Show all (8 |xje| dfg| ntu| tls| uzc| izj| pra| msk| usk| ira| ntp| tlr| acf| ron| zsv| nva| ber| wlb| esx| qfa| uso| zzl| rpo| lrs| lko| yfo| cdu| seh| unx| zqw| hxy| lze| wzo| pdh| jzd| exb| wpv| pgf| ucr| bvx| pkp| cdr| zrw| neh| zqg| mzm| koh| rar| hrm| jog|