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During his 40-year career he has made some of the most inspiring films of the 1970s and 1980s. His impressive documentary works were combined with a selection of feature films. These documentary films (26 so far) display a creative and enquiring mind. Herzog's approach often takes a heroic stance and explores themes of interest to him that are associated with his subjects. Similarly, the exotic and remote corners of the world are opened up with a visual language developed from his cinematic experience. It is the fictional or fantastical elements that he discovers in real life that make his film work so intriguing. The originality in his work emerges from a tendency to push his subjects away from normal social patterns towards a more mythical or philosophical resonance. Indeed this myth making is also evident in the life of Herzog too and most of what we know about him is untrue. His approach to cinema has in part helped to accumulate this baggage, with bizarre, dangerous and controversial projects. Herzog's work and legacy was discussed in an illustrated lecture by Susanne Bach of the UCD Film Studies Department. The two-day program was as follows: |
The
retrospective film event featured Werner
Herzog is one of the most distinctive and original film directors in the
history of cinema.