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Happy People: A Year in the Taiga(2013)- Dir: Werner Herzog
Not the most inspiring trailer, but I’ll still check it out. I mean, it’s Herzog, right?!
With Happy People: A Year in the Taiga, iconic filmmaker Werner Herzog embarks on another unforgettable journey into the heart of a remote natural environment. Deep in the Siberian wilderness, leagues away from civilization, a mere 300 people inhabit the village of Bakhtia on the river Yenisei. This outpost can only be reached in two ways: by boat and helicopter. There is no running water, no medical aid or even a single telephone. The locals, whose daily routines have hardly changed over the centuries, live self-reliantly according to their cultural values and traditions. With insightful narration by Herzog, Happy People follows a few veteran Siberian trappers through the Taiga’s four seasons to tell the incredible story of a society untouched by modernity. From Music Box Films. In theaters January 2013.
Via: Music Box Films
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“Overwhelming and collective murder”
-Herzog on the jungle, from Les Blank’s Burden of Dreams.
I’d love to have him narrate me brushing my teeth.
Via: Biblioklept
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Dude has some fascinating points.
“You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise. Because I stylize, I invent, there’s a lot of fantasy in it—not for creating a fraud, but exactly the contrary, to create a deeper form of truth, which is not fact-related. Facts hardly ever give you any truth, and that’s a mistake of cinéma vérité, because they always postulate it as if facts would constitute truth. In that case, my answer is that the phone directory of Manhattan is a book of books. Because it has 4 million entries, and they are all factually correct, but it doesn’t illuminate us. You see, I do things for creating moments that illuminate you as an audience, and the same thing happens with feature films as well.”
Werner Herzog (born September 5, 1942)
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