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BURDEN OF DREAMS goes behind the scenes of the chaotic production of Werner Herzog’s epic “Fitzcarraldo,” following the director and his team as they battle against the seemingly endless obstacles in pursuit of an impossible dream.
Director: Les Blank
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Learn more about the extensive output of Werner Herzog. If you have the interest and opportunity, attend the Rogue Film School, a series of weekend film seminars led by Herzog himself.
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Give voice to your inner artist, or encourage others who have an artistic vision but not yet the courage to release it. As Herzog stated, “We have to articulate ourselves – otherwise we would be cows in a jungle.”
The creation and appreciation of art is universal across continents, cultures and classes, and at the same time is intensely personal.(…)
Filmmaker Maureen Gosling talks about working on BURDEN OF DREAMS and what she learnt from Werner’s unique style of filmmaking.
Leslie Harrod Blank, film-maker, born 27 November 1935; died 7 April 2013
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“’I shouldn’t make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.’
The Toronto Film Festival audience responds to his monologues with smatterings of giggles, occasional gales of laughter. But some people are shifting nervously in their seats. A few actually get up and leave.There’s an ineffable uneasiness shared by those who remain to watch the film…”
“Werner Herzog has forever been a maverick of modern cinema and certainly never one to work within the constraints of the so-called ‘normal cinema’. (…) So let’s take a look at the man who has arguably produced some of the most interesting and compellingly insane pieces of cinema of the 20th and 21st centuries”
Check out the full article on What Culture.
“Some of the most overlooked personalities in the film industry are the men and women who sit in the director’s chair.(…) It is often the directors who outshine their fellow artists in terms of eccentricities and sheer craziness.”
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“For more than a hundred years, the Mashco had lived in almost complete isolation; there were rare sightings, but they were often indistinguishable from backwoods folklore.”
“To film or not to film? How close to a subject is too close? How far is too far? These are questions that documentary filmmakers should be asking themselves when they set out to record a true story. Sometimes lines are crossed, and sometimes boundaries are set beforehand. Sometimes the filmmaker and the audience disagree on where the line is, and a divide is created between them. ”
You’ll find the full article on Indie Wire.
