{"id":10601,"date":"2015-01-17T20:19:17","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T20:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/?p=10601"},"modified":"2023-06-22T21:35:31","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T21:35:31","slug":"lessons-of-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/?p=10601","title":{"rendered":"Werner Herzog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>\u2192<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wernerherzog.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.wernerherzog.com<\/a>\u00a0\u2190<\/strong><\/p>\n<h5>\u2666 \u00a0\u2666 \u00a0Lessons of Darkness \u2193\u00a0(1992)<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shot in documentary style on 16mm film from the perspective of an alien observer, the film is an exploration of the ravaged oil fields of post-Gulf War <strong>Kuwait<\/strong>, decontextualised and characterised in such a way as to emphasise the terrain&#8217;s cataclysmic strangeness.<sup id=\"cite_ref-maslin_1-0\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/14958024\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a4 \u00a0More madness . . . \u21d2<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boreme.com\/posting.php?id=15794#.VAjXcWR_v7U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kuwaiti oil fields set alight<\/a>\u00a0\u21d0<\/h6>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00ab&#8230; Two figures are approaching an oil well<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>One of them holds a lighted torch<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>What are they up to?<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Are they going to rekindle the blaze?<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Has life without fire become unbearable for them?<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Others, seized by the madness, follow suit.<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Now they are content.<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Now they have something to extinguish again&#8230;\u00bb<\/strong><\/address>\n<h6>\u2666 \u00a0Fata Morgana\u00a0 \u21d3\u00a0 \u00a0[1971]<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/FataMorganaVsoHerzog1971AngeeParaZoowoman.website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-44249 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/fata-morgana.jpg\" alt=\"fata morgana\" width=\"150\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/fata-morgana.jpg 142w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/fata-morgana-107x150.jpg 107w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>A film by\u00a0Werner Herzog, shot in 1969, which captures\u00a0mirages\u00a0in the\u00a0<strong>Sahara<\/strong>\u00a0desert: &#8216;<em>Fata\u00a0Morgana&#8217;\u00a0<\/em>comprises three sections: <strong>\u00abCreation\u00bb, \u00abParadise\u00bb &amp; \u00abThe Golden Age\u00bb.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Creation<\/strong>, the longest section at about 39 minutes, consists primarily of panning and tracking shots of desolate desert landscapes, mostly devoid of life. There is no live-action speaking in this section, only the voice-over narration from Lotte Eisner, who reads from the <strong>Popol Vuh<\/strong>, the classic creation text of the Quiche Indians of Guatemala. The Popol Vuh is an important work from the 16th century that is thought to reflect the stories of the Pre-Classic Mayan people. Lotte Eisner was a noted film historian who worked at the Cinematheque Francaise for thirty years and authored the classic text on German Expressionist film,\u00a0The Haunted Screen. The narration of Creation relates how the great gods, the Mighty and Cucumatz, created first the world, then the animals, and then man. Their first attempts to create man were not very successful, since the created beings did not speak properly, so the gods destroyed them and tried again. The second time, they created man out of wood, but again these people didn\u2019t speak properly, and so the gods destroyed them, too, this time by drowning them. It was only their third attempt that was successful&#8230;<\/div>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RIOCyVeRmjo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-44780\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Aguirre_Der_Zorn_Gottes.jpg\" alt=\"Aguirre_Der_Zorn_Gottes\" width=\"161\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Aguirre_Der_Zorn_Gottes.jpg 283w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Aguirre_Der_Zorn_Gottes-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Aguirre_Der_Zorn_Gottes-108x150.jpg 108w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 161px) 100vw, 161px\" \/><\/a>\u2666\u2192 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bfi.org.uk\/news-opinion\/news-bfi\/features\/great-beginnings-aguirre-wrath-god\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aguirre The Wrath of God<\/a>\u00a0 \u21d2<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Unlike <em>Fitzcarraldo<\/em>, which balanced its insane spectacle with a narrative laced with human warmth and ultimate redemption,\u00a0<i>Aguirre<\/i>\u00a0is essentially a trip straight into hell, a damned expedition loosely based on the story of Basque conquistador <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lope_de_Aguirre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lope de Aguirre<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Herzog essentially set out to capture a time and place never seen before, one which seems to burst from western civilization&#8217;s collective unconscious and mirrors the mad follies committed by inept leaders over the centuries.<\/p>\n<h6><em>\u25ca \u00a0The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser \u00a0\u2193 <\/em><\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>[Florian Fricke plays &#8216;Agnus Dei&#8217; _ 1974]<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Herzog&#8217;s film is based upon the true and mysterious story of <strong>Kaspar Hauser<\/strong>, a young man who suddenly appeared in Nuremberg in 1828, barely able to speak or walk, and bearing a strange note; he later explained that he had been held captive in a dungeon of some sort for his entire life that he could remember, and only recently was he released, for reasons unknown. His benefactor attempts to integrate him into society, with intriguing results.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tzxreLUzuUI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5>\u2666 \u00a0Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht \u00a0\u2193 \u00a0[trailer_1979]<\/h5>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jweLDWGtRXs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\">\u25ca\u2192 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/x6uabjq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FITZCARRALDO<\/a>\u00a0 \u21d3\u00a0 (bellini: i puritani) \u00a01982<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Brian Sweeney \u00abFitzcarraldo\u00bb Fitzgerald (Klaus Kinski) is a European living in\u00a0Iquitos, a small city in\u00a0Peru\u00a0in the early part of the 20th century. He has an indomitable spirit, but in essence is little more than a dreamer with one major failure already behind him&#8230;\u00a0A lover of opera and a great fan of Enrico Caruso, he now dreams of building an\u00a0<strong>opera house<\/strong>\u00a0in\u00a0Iquitos. This will require considerable amounts of money, and the most profitable industry in Peru at the time is\u00a0rubber&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7yL51W9njLM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u25ca\u00a0\u00abBurden of dreams\u00bb\u00a0\u2193 \u00a0by \u2192\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.criterion.com\/current\/posts\/2725-werner-herzog-on-les-blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Les Blank<\/a> \u2190\u00a0(1935-2013)<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Summary of 1982 documentary film:\u00a0<em>\u00abThe Ordeal of Making Fitzcarraldo\u00bb<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cYWEMX7juPw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cA vision had seized hold of me, like the demented fury of a hound that has sunk its teeth into the leg of a deer carcass and is shaking and tugging at the downed game so frantically that the hunter gives up trying to calm him. It was the vision of a large steamship scaling a hill under its own steam, working its way up a steep slope in the jungle, while above this natural landscape, which shatters the weak and the strong with equal ferocity, soars the voice of Caruso, silencing all the pain and all the voices of the primeval forest and drowning out all birdsong. To be more precise: bird cries, for in this setting, left unfinished and abandoned by God in wrath, the birds do not sing; they shriek in pain, and confused trees tangle with one another like battling Titans, from horizon to horizon, in a steaming creation still being formed. Fog-panting and exhausted they stand in this unreal misery &#8211; and I, like a stanza in a poem written in an unknown foreign tongue, am shaken to the core.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0 [<strong>W.H.<\/strong>]<\/address>\n<h6>\u2666 &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7bYAhMmfksg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ballad of the Little Soldier<\/a>&#8216; \u21d0[clip_1984]<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i>A<\/i> documentary\u00a0about children soldiers in Nicaragua. The film focuses on a group of <strong>Miskito<\/strong> Indians who used children soldiers in their resistance against the Sandinistas.\u00a0Herzog made and co-directed the film at the request of his friend <strong>Denis Reichle<\/strong>, who himself served as a child-soldier in the Volkssturm at age fourteen in the aftermath of World War II.<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u25ca \u00a0Where the Green Ants Dream \u00a0\u21d3 \u00a0[1985]<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Set in the Australian desert, the film\u00a0is about a land feud between a mining company (which he called Ayers to avoid any legal threats from <a title=\"Alcan\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alcan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nabalco<\/a>) and the native Aborigines. The Aborigines claim that an area the mining company wishes to work on is the place where <a title=\"Weaver ant\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Weaver_ant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">green ants<\/a> dream, and that disturbing them will destroy humanity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2mtouaHkSfA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-47195\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Where_the_green_ants_dream_DVD_cover.jpg\" alt=\"Where_the_green_ants_dream_DVD_cover\" width=\"185\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Where_the_green_ants_dream_DVD_cover.jpg 185w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Where_the_green_ants_dream_DVD_cover-104x150.jpg 104w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h6>\u25ca \u00a0\u00a0Cobra Verde\u00a0\u2193 \u00a0[1987]<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the Nineteenth Century, in Bahia, the bandit Francisco Manoel da Silva aka <strong>Cobra Verde<\/strong> is feared and respected by the locals. He is hired by the lord Octavio Coutinho to work as henchman in one of his plantations of sugar cane, supervising the slaves and the production of sugar. When the three daughters of Octavio are pregnant of Cobra Verde, he is sent to Almeria, in the West of Africa, to negotiate slaves with the crazy African King Abomey, in times when this trade was prohibited by Great Britain. The loneliness associated to the fact of being the only white man in Almeria drives Cobra Verde to insanity.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pNBrnKY5rDA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6>\u2666 \u00a0Wodaabe &#8211; Herdsmen of the Sun \u00a0\u2193 \u00a01989<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <strong>Wodaabe<\/strong> tribe, a nomadic African community (self-described as <em>\u00abthe most beautiful people on earth\u00bb<\/em>) annually practice a festival called Gerewol, in which females choose their mates from a lineup of super-elaborately adorned men with wild makeup, feathers and kaleidoscopic robes draping their seven-foot frames. Starting with the first scene, Herzog accentuates the ethereal nature of this rite further by layering early 20th-century recordings of opera on the soundtrack:\u00a0<em>\u00abOhne Trost und ohne Hoffen\u00bb<\/em> (from Julius C\u00e4sar) by\u00a0Emmi Leisner&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MlnO1QDqpaQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6>\u25ca \u00a0Scream of Stone \/\u00a0Schrei aus Stein\u00a0\u2193 \u00a0[1991] \u00a0&#8230; \u00a0<strong>Tannh\u00e4user overture<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O3uCR6U68Jc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6>\u25ca\u00a0A scene from \u2193 &#8216;The Transformation of the World Into Music&#8217; [1994]<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Fireman<\/strong> interviewed in doc about the\u00a0<a title=\"Bayreuth Festival\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bayreuth_Festival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bayreuth Festival<\/a>, focusing on\u00a0<a title=\"Richard Wagner\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Wagner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Richard Wagner<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/19632885\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/19632885\">A scene from The Transformation of the World Into Music<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user1957556\">Adam Cook<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h5>\u2666 \u00a0<strong>\u201cPILGRIMAGE\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0\u2193 \u00a0by\u00a0<strong>Werner Herzog \u00a0(2001)<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The score for the film was composed by <strong>John Tavener<\/strong> and performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra with vocal accompaniment by <strong>Parvin Cox<\/strong> and the Westminster Cathedral Choir.\u00a0\u00a0Executive Producer Christian Seidel &amp; Rodney Wilson.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3QOuhNBawdk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6 id=\"watch-headline-title\">\u2666\u2192 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/94263500\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ten Minutes Older The Trumpet: Thousand Years<\/a>\u00a0 \u2190\u00a0(2002)<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The film opens with\u00a0<a title=\"Stock footage\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stock_footage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stock footage<\/a>\u00a0of the <strong>Amondauas<\/strong>&#8216;\u00a0first contact\u00a0with modern Brazilians in 1981. Herzog states that they had previously only a \u00abstone age existence\u00bb, with no knowledge of\u00a0metalworking. Within several years, the majority of the tribe had been wiped out, most killed by\u00a0<a title=\"Chicken pox\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chicken_pox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">chicken pox<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0common cold.\u00a0Herzog visits the tribe twenty years after their first contact. He discusses the elders&#8217; opinions on their new life, as well as the children&#8217;s. The elders long for their previous lives as jungle warriors, while the children are embarrassed by their parents and want to live as modern Brazilians.<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: left;\">\u2666 \u00a0WHEEL OF TIME\u00a0 \u00a0[2003]<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=10084L3Pqsc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-44248\" src=\"http:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/sand-mandala.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a>The legendary German filmmaker <strong>Werner Herzog<\/strong> traveled to India in 2002 to make a documentary on <strong>Kalachakra<\/strong>, the elaborate ordaining ritual for Tibetan Buddhist monks. Every two or three years, nearly a half million pilgrims travel to witness it at <strong>Bodh Gaya<\/strong>, India, where the Buddha sat under a tree and found enlightenment. A sand mandala signifying the wheel of time is meticulously created by monks and is meant to stir the seeds of enlightenment in Buddhists of all stripes. This intricate creation stands for the world of phenomena, the realms of consciousness, and the pure lands of the deities. Pilgrims from Nepal, Bhutan, Mongolia, Thailand, and Sri Lanka arrive in trucks or on foot. They endure heat, hunger, and thirst to get there. Those who are more well-to-do set up tents while the majority sleep on the ground&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The closing shot is of <strong>Mount Kalish<\/strong> in Tibet, which has been called a <em>\u00abprecious jewel of snow.\u00bb<\/em> According to tradition, one three-day trip around the sacred mountain can wipe away the sins of a lifetime. Herzog catches the shimmering dots on the lake in front of the jewel shaped mountain in what becomes a breathtaking visual delight.<\/p>\n<h6 id=\"watch-headline-title\">\u2666 \u00a0Grizzly Man \u00a0\u2193 \u00a0(Docudrama &#8211; 2005)<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Timothy Treadwell<\/strong> periodically journeyed to Alaska to study and live with the bears. He was killed, along with his girlfriend, <strong>Amie Huguenard<\/strong>, by a rogue bear in October 2003.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Grizzly Man Trailer HD\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gWycuaWJFCM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6>\u25ca\u2192 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UNm9Tzo5rvI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rescue Dawn<\/a> \u00a0\u2193 \u00a0[2006] &#8211; music by <a href=\"http:\/\/klausbadelt.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Klaus Badelt<\/a>\u00a0\u2190<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Inspired by his own 1997 documentary <em>&#8216;Little Dieter Needs to Fly<\/em>&#8216;, this film accounts the escape efforts of a German-American pilot who was taken as a prisoner-of-war after being shot down over Laos during the Vietnam War. When U.S. fighter pilot Dieter Dengler (Christian Bale) escaped death after being shot down over one of the most intense front lines in the Vietnam War, he was taken captive by the enemy and forced to endure a harrowing stint in a Vietnamese prison camp; Dengler and his fellow captives stage a death-defying escape . . .<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rp-NAkZNHBc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6>\u2666 \u00a0Encounters at the End of the World \u00a0\u2193 \u00a0[clip_2007]<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">WH profiles the Antarctic community of <strong>McMurdo<\/strong> Station. Located on Ross Island, McMurdo Station is the headquarters of the <strong>National Science Foundation<\/strong>. Whether offering a detailed study of the unique survival training regimen that newcomers to McMurdo are obligated to endure or pondering the majestic beauty of a landscape where the\u00a0discovery of three new species in a single day is something worth truly celebrating, Herzog boldly offers viewers the opportunity to visit one of the most inaccessible and awe-inspiring landscapes on the planet.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Kc9tdLNafws\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6>\u2666 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cijkIXXiSW4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Happy People: A Year In The Taiga<\/a>\u00a0 \u21d0\u00a0[WH + Dmitry Wasyukov, 2010]<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Visually stunning documentary about indigenous people living in the heart of the Siberian Taiga. Deep in the wilderness, far away from civilization, 300 people inhabit the small village of <strong>Bakhtia<\/strong> at the river <strong>Yenisei<\/strong>. There are only two ways to reach this outpost: by\u00a0helicopter or boat. There&#8217;s no telephone, running water or medical aid. The locals, whose daily routines have barely changed over the last centuries, live according to their own values and cultural traditions. With insightful commentary written and narrated by Herzog, HAPPY PEOPLE: A YEAR IN THE TAIGA follows one of the Siberian trappers through all four seasons of the year to tell the story of a culture virtually untouched by modernity.<\/p>\n<h4>\u2666\u2192 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_xDcdVWnOiE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00abCave of Forgotten Dreams\u00bb<\/a> \u00a0\u21d0 \u00a0[2010]<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the <strong>Chauvet<\/strong> caves of southern France, capturing the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind in their astonishing natural setting. 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