When Two Filmmakers Make the Same Movie

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Last year, two filmmakers made the same documentary about volcanoes. One got nominated for an Oscar, the other one was made by Werner Herzog. Let’s talk about what his film, The Fire Within, reveals about the meaning of ecstatic truth, the deep humanism invoked by sublime wonder, and the inexplicable magic of cinema.
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00:00 Introduction
02:10 In Search of Adequate Images
05:06 Competing Filmmaking Philosophies
09:04 What is Ecstatic Truth?
13:02 From Sublime Wonder to Humanism
17:07 The Inner Chronicle of What We Are
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@mairiamonitino6637 Жыл бұрын

where is the Herzog documentary streaming please?

@Mtl-zf9om Жыл бұрын

Those clips of Katia standing close to a lavafall is both scary and beautiful.

@calebchan314 Жыл бұрын

Great documentary/video essay!

@MCHammer79 Жыл бұрын

Hey man! If you happen upon reading this comment, then please consider doing a video on The Banshees of Inisherin. That movie was so beautifully written and has so many layers to it. It truly is both tragic and beautiful

@bathan901 Жыл бұрын

@@calebchan314 😮yes I’m😮th one who has tr🎉😢😢like 😢a 😢😢😢 10:45 m😅u

@jimjimgl3 Жыл бұрын

I can't think of anything worse than having my documentary premiere the same year as a documentary with the same subject matter by Herzog

@PanzerBuyer Жыл бұрын

I know right!?

@LordSesshaku Жыл бұрын

I can, that then your documentary gets more award attention than Herzog's due to being backed by National Geographic, but then, years later people talk about Herzog's and not yours.

@jimjimgl3 Жыл бұрын

@@LordSesshaku double whammy

@EggBastion Жыл бұрын

@@LordSesshaku psh Nat Geo is a brand and a buncha flim flam I can't believe I used to look up to it and it's readers as a kid

@DaveMeuleman Жыл бұрын

@@EggBastionBack in the day it was a cool magazine, and they made good documenteries. Now it's just a cash grab...

@griffredarmy Жыл бұрын

Those images are mind blowing. The shots of them in the protective suits with a river of lava coursing behind them seem unreal. It looks like something from a 50's sci-fi movie.

@AaaaNinja Жыл бұрын

The camera is actually very very far away using a zoom, it flattens out the perspective so while the person in the suit may actually be miles from the fountain that you see in the background, the flattened perspective makes it look like they're almost touching it. Because perspective may be the only clue you have as to distance. It's an illusion. The heat is still incredible even at that distance. I was at an outdoor Disney show and I could still feel the heat radiating from the pyrotechnics a soccer field's distance away because I did not reserve a seat for the show.

@kristjanpeil 10 ай бұрын

Adequate images.

@BodywiseMustard 4 ай бұрын

'50s

@meghbhavsar3968 3 ай бұрын

the footmarks on the black sand...the blackness of the sand feels so ethereal.

@ConfusionPlus2 3 ай бұрын

Its the one really stand out scene used in this video that really captured my imagination. It's excellent.

@dw5523 Жыл бұрын

I had a momentary existential crisis hearing that voice, THAT VOICE, come out of a younger man than I'm used to seeing. What a treasure this guy is.

@NullStaticVoid Жыл бұрын

you really have to watch Burden of Dreams and Aguirre Wrath of God as a double feature.

@filmnobelpreis Жыл бұрын

@@NullStaticVoid Fitzcarraldo*

@DarkAngelEU 11 ай бұрын

@@NullStaticVoid Burden of Dreams changed me from wanting to write fiction to simply describe and philosophize on the nature of reality. Easily the best thing I've ever seen in my life.

@muadddib Ай бұрын

Everytime I hear Herzog now there is a tiny part of my mind that only hears _"I vant to see ze chaild"_

@icyearth Жыл бұрын

This slow type of documentary is very common, the standard I would say in German documentaries. Growing up seeing that type of filmmaking on TV, then later on watching the fast paced American style, made me appreciate the sense of calm and admiration created with each shot. It makes it feel more alive, organic and raw.

@ProfessorBoswell Жыл бұрын

Yeah, you hit on something important, his pace is thoughtful in every sense of the word

@squirlmy Жыл бұрын

Although, you get some of that feeling from comparing just about amything to American TV!!! Especially the commercials, of which there are ridiculous amounts to get through in normal american TV broadcasts.

@oakfat5178 Жыл бұрын

@@squirlmy Even classical music. US orchestras are inclined to play a piece at a faster tempo, slow and thoughtful suits me better.

@tessiepinkman Жыл бұрын

I feel the same way, growing up in Sweden. The documentaries from around here are paced (in my opinion) much better than the American _"3-seconds-then-switch"-style._ Okay, I may have exaggerated the American pacing, but you get what I mean. It's not the same. And I'm sad to say that the younger generation of filmmakers (and I'm not old, I'm born -90), are leaning more towards the American style - because they don't think that our _"native"_ style of editing will capture an audience. There are exceptions, of course, and I hope that the public will speak loud enough to show those in the business that the _"Swedish way"_ is the Swedish way for a reason.

@christianlingurar7085 Жыл бұрын

danke. jetzt fühle ich mich nicht mehr so allein.

@UATU. Жыл бұрын

Every time I need some existential perspective, I rewatch Cave of Forgotten Dreams and let Herzog hypnotize me with the enormity of deep time and fleeting sparks of human meaning.

@fdllicks Жыл бұрын

Im a long time Herzog fan and that was the only one i was lucky enough to catch in the theater for the full experience.

@UATU. Жыл бұрын

@@fdllicks I think watching on a big screen would have caused sensory overload, but I envy you.

@brianmiller1077 Жыл бұрын

@@fdllicks was it also in 3D?

@prime-mate Жыл бұрын

Hands down, my favorite documentary ever..

@davidhull1481 Жыл бұрын

I just watched the trailer for this, and I have a question. Does that music occur all throughout the movie? I ask because I found it irritating.

@brandonmorel2658 Жыл бұрын

Herzog's theory for art analysis has deeply changed how I look and engage with media in general. He taught me to never ignore this abstract gut feeling that tells me when something is true beyond the factual. It's a beautiful and elusive feeling, it has even happened with many of LSOO videos. Thank you for your videos.

@byucatch22 Жыл бұрын

In the words quoted in this video, there is something truly sublime about knowing a truth because you have felt it through your soul. Not a surface-level knowledge arrived at by a surface-level experience, but a life-altering knowledge gained through a life-altering feeling.

@Martschy 6 ай бұрын

gut feeling isnt that abstract. it can become very physical.

@johan8969 5 ай бұрын

I am instantly reminded of the man who taped a banana to a wall. It gives me nothing. It provokes no feelings. I understand the intention, he wants to provoke an abstract discussion about art, but he does it with something that does not give a gut feeling. Which makes me believe that he doesnt understand this beautiful and elusive feeling art can provoke. It becomes a discussion instead of an experience.

@ZuhatzArt 4 ай бұрын

@@johan8969🎯🎯🎯 yes all the 'banana tape' clone artists think the rational mind is Godless. without spirits. as if they're the dead talking but about life.

@mumblesbadly7708 Жыл бұрын

Werner Herzog is probably THE most important film director from to come out of Germany for the past 60 years. The guy is a living legend!

@Leonorexplore Жыл бұрын

I met the Kraffts when they showed their documentary in my hometown. Both were very pleasant, humble and accessible. RIP Katia and Maurice.

@marshaltito7232 Жыл бұрын

One of my favorite films of all time is Herzog's Lessons of Darkness. The way he doesn't focus on the war itself nor about heavy moralizations of war one way or the other. Instead, he just shows the aftermath and the cleanup in stark beauty, leaving a deep sense of melancholy that speaks for itself. He is truly a brilliant aesthetician.

@RowieSundog Жыл бұрын

I never realised how massive those lava flows were until seeing a human figure suited up against the heat striding towards them

@chucklebutt4470 Жыл бұрын

You should learn more about pyroclastic flows/surges if you haven't already. They're terrifying and ultimately what took the lives of the Kraffts. The destructive power of them is hard to imagine. One minute you're standing there and the next a river of 1,000 °C gas and debris is coming down on you at 100-700 km/h. There's images of what used to be concrete buildings with just the support pillars left and the steel rebar at the top bent over like grass in the wind.

@RandallStephens397 Жыл бұрын

The Fire Within was my introduction to Herzog and boy howdy did it convince me that he's a brilliant documentarian right from the start; the way he opens it, it's as if to say "you're here to see volcanoes, so here: let's just look at some volcanoes, because they are awesome!" and the rest is just letting the subject speak for itself.

@lorenarcp Жыл бұрын

Hey, Randall! When you can, watch Werner's first docs -- I feel they hit different, more interestingly

@bobdhitman Жыл бұрын

Welcome to the Herzog fan club. Enjoy the rest of his work!

@ProfessorBoswell Жыл бұрын

Yes! Unlike most filmmakers he lets the subjects speak and truly listens, his images and even his use of other peoples' images are unparalleled. Watch everything he's made! His fictions and documentaries are so great. I don't like steering people but one fun thing to do is watch his 5 collaborations with Kinski, then watch Burden of Dreams and My Best Fiend. So great.

@comfykeegs Жыл бұрын

Little Dieter has a special place in my heart

@princequestly2218 Жыл бұрын

And filmmaker.

@pterodactylpie8825 Жыл бұрын

Cave of Forgotten Dreams is a priceless treasure of a movie, the quietness you feel while watching, there’s just nothing else like it. I’m forever grateful to Werner Herzog for sharing that cave and it’s history with us.

@ProfessorBoswell Жыл бұрын

He brings those humans from so long ago alive in a way I've never seen. Some other filmmaker could spend millions on locations, costumes, makeup, research on paleolithic people, etc, and still not show them as deeply as he did.

@NullStaticVoid Жыл бұрын

Just wish it wasn't done with that damn 3D camera. My eyesight cannot work with those types of 3D. So I get a nice headache for trying.

@kaufjonas Жыл бұрын

I'm a young filmmaker studying philosophy with a special interest for Werner Herzog. Thanks for analyzing Werner's Philosophy so deeply, and to spread the word. It gives us the chance to re-enter an era of well-thought art.

@WaxPaper Жыл бұрын

Check out Demian, by Herman Hesse. It's a quick read, but it's great. I only bring it up because over the years, I keep hoping some young filmmaker will finally try to adapt it to film. I read it when I was 15, and it changed my life.

@puncherry Жыл бұрын

Theres a Herzog retrospective at the Deutsches Kinematek rn , but deepness is not for everyone, it never was

@classifiedtopsecret4664 Жыл бұрын

Jonas Kaufmann are you aware of the "leaked" Timothy Treadwell audio of the bear attack ? and thru studying Werner's work do you think it is the real audio or a reenactment of the actual audio?? Just curious 🤔 thanks.

@kaufjonas Жыл бұрын

@@classifiedtopsecret4664 it's a reenactment... but to a certain extend I agree on Werners approach to gain access to "ecstatic truth"

@classifiedtopsecret4664 Жыл бұрын

@Jonas Kaufmann i could never make my mind up if it was real or not.. .50/50. . But it is a very good reenactment. .it is haunting. When i first listened to it my heart died and i thort i would never forget the noise he made. .but got over it quicker than anticipated.

@TempusViator Жыл бұрын

"All these dreams are yours as well" is such a beautiful distillation of why we make art

@LarryPanozzo Жыл бұрын

Wow, loving this. ‘Adequate’ by the standards of a film legend naturally helps everyone raise their standards.

@atomicsmith Жыл бұрын

I don’t think he means adequate in terms of film criticism. I think he means adequate in terms of conveying the enormity of nature and man’s place in it. In that case, “adequate” is a very high bar.

@DawidUliczny-ro7eo Жыл бұрын

There is a beautiful shot from The Grizzly Man (4:55 in this video), where he disappears up the path into the bushes. The shot is framed so well you could be there for hours and not get it. You can hear the wind rustling, everything in the frame is moving, and yet the sequence instills a feeling of stillness and peacefulness with a slight hint of nostalgia

@LosBerkos Жыл бұрын

So in other words, you did not watch this video prior to commenting.

@Ajsandborg Жыл бұрын

Listening to Herzog talk about ecstatic truth and the poetic really reminds me of how i felt watching some films by Tarkovsky. Watching his films has been one of the most personal experiences i've ever had with cinema.

@squirlmy Жыл бұрын

I agree but i have a hard time convincing others to sit through the hours and hours his films last.

@Ajsandborg Жыл бұрын

@@squirlmy Yeah me too, and to be honest i can't blame them. As much as it breaks my heart that i can't share these feelings with them. I remember when i tried to watch Solaris with my family (which is maybe the "easiest" Tarkovsky film to watch) and my dad was really bored of the long shots and complained how the movie didn't even try to keep his attention. Which is fine of course, it's not that i was sad that he has a different taste in movies but i was sad that, as Herzog said about poetry, he didn't feel illuminated. Fortunately i have a few friends who do, immediately when i show them specific shots from Mirror or Stalker, they get it. They too realize that they have a brother and sharing that realization with someone is a beautiful thing.

@ElazarYershovFilms Жыл бұрын

@@AjsandborgI prefer Kurosawa’s filmmaking or Bergman’s

@Godsen5 Жыл бұрын

I never really understood why people liked Herzog so much. Until 2020. In Italy we went full lock-down (one of the strictest in the world) and came out in May, cinemas were allowed to operate with weird rules in July and there was this place where they projected old films among one new titles each couple weeks, and I went for the first time since the pandemic hit in February to watch a movie. The movie was "Nomad" about Bruce Chatwin. And, apart from the motion of being in the theater, with the mask, one or two seats apart from my then girlfriend, with the door in the back open, etc. Apart from all the cinema-in-a-pandemic commotion, I finally got it. The way he traffics through Chatwin's bag finally gave me the right feeling. There was a sort of materiality and even a bit of awkwardness, and the attempt was to communicate a sort of truth through images, as if to prevent the images to transform Chatwin's life into spectacle. It did have a strong impression on me and from that I could understand (in the sense of tuning myself to the right feeling) also others of his movies.

@karl_3885 Жыл бұрын

Werner is so good at what he does, it's unbelievable. National treasure.

@MeettheMaker Жыл бұрын

International treasure!

@TomGraham-mk2wl 7 ай бұрын

@@MeettheMaker Intergalactic treasure!!

@whatsthatnoise5955 6 ай бұрын

@@TomGraham-mk2wl Pan-dimensional treasure

@MISTERMANTICORE Жыл бұрын

Werner Herzog is one of the greatest filmmakers alive today.

@brandonmorel2658 Жыл бұрын

Herzog is really great and his work has illuminated and widened my limited human experience and soul. His philosophic approach and theory have put into words theses experiences and little flashes of "Sublime" I've felt when I have engaged with media like "My Dinner with Andre" or even "Disco Elysium".

@ProfessorBoswell Жыл бұрын

One of the greatest humans

@jablanbukvovski Жыл бұрын

Bad Lieutenant is my favorite movie

@TimeLordCraft Жыл бұрын

FREEDOMFOREVER

@rolanddutton Жыл бұрын

@@jablanbukvovski "his soul is still dancing" - a truly great scene

@ReynaSingh Жыл бұрын

9:39 ecstatic truth is what sets apart works of art. Anyone can repeat a series of facts, but even those facts are part of a grander narrative

@mrpawan969 Жыл бұрын

😮❤

@squirlmy Жыл бұрын

You might like vampire film "Only Lovers Left Alive" from Jim Jarmusch It symbolically turns art appreciation around. The vampires are art lovers, especially of things like underappreciated old rock songs. But their love of art gives them a rationalizion for feeding on humans! 😮😢😅

@kareliask Жыл бұрын

If anyone wants to see the greatest extent of the slow shot style of Herzog, do give Lessons of Darkness a try. Some truly otherworldly images that will never be captured again.

@ProfessorBoswell Жыл бұрын

Love that one! Something funnier is that festival audiences hated it, because he used the gulf war images for something deeper, they just wanted a "bad guys good guys" documentary

@pauld4628 Жыл бұрын

I think of those opening shots from Aguirre with the whole column marching over the mountains and jungle and you're just consumed by the imagery and music; the sheer scale of not just the movie but the actual subjugation of two continents.

@dosesandmimoses Жыл бұрын

Werner is such a beautiful storyteller- combining words and images with poetic justice. Gratitude

@burnitdwn Жыл бұрын

Herzog is magic. Encounters at the end of the world. The sole penguin wandering away from the ocean. existential angst. so much power.

@vashsunglasses Жыл бұрын

I watched both documentaries a couple months back and I highly preferred Werner Herzog's one. I'm surprized the other one won an award, it just seemed like an average documentary to me, nothing special. It just taught me the facts of those people's lives, but Herzog's expanded my understanding of human nature. Or, to be more precise, it gave me a few more tools that I can use to expand my understanding. A wider perspective of human experience.

@ProfessorBoswell Жыл бұрын

Average documentaries are always the ones that win awards

@comfykeegs Жыл бұрын

Precisely

@TheGotoGeek Жыл бұрын

@@ProfessorBoswell Hoop Dreams wasn’t even nominated, so I think you’re onto something.

@theawfullest Жыл бұрын

I couldn't get through Fire of Love. It spent too much time mythologizing how much this couple loved each other and how we should be in awe of volcanos. Like, both of those things can be true, but it felt really shallow and repetitive to me.

@danil8663 Жыл бұрын

The Krafft footage is just so good that I really liked Fire of Love, but still the narration added basically nothing.

@lorenzodicapo6305 Жыл бұрын

One of my favorite moments is from the documentary 'My Best Fiend', where Herzog is giving his estimation of the Amazonian jungle and claiming, 'the birds here do not sing, they cry out in pain.'

@Killerbee_McTitties Жыл бұрын

As a kid I used to watch a documentary with Katja and Maurice by national geographic over and over, i was obsessed with it. I think it's called Volcanoe: Nature's Inferno. In recent weeks I remembered them after reading something about volcanoes and now this video. coincidences are crazy sometimes. I might have to watch that Werner Herzog movie.

@jackquinn9535 9 ай бұрын

Then again are there (room left for) coincidences in our time of vast piles of data accumulated non-stop on every frigging soul lost in cyberspace, processed and analyzed by faceless monster algorithms gone berserk ("intelligent").

@pectenmaximus231 Жыл бұрын

Herzog is one of the greatest artists in the history of humanity. Im not a film student or cinephile or something but that just seems an obvious point on reflection.

@murrayr7703 Жыл бұрын

Do you often lead with hyperbole

@PanzerBuyer Жыл бұрын

I was happy to see him in the Mandalorian too.

@squamish4244 Жыл бұрын

What's just as extraordinary is that Treadwell managed to interact with grizzlies for 13 years and escaped harm. It was when he made a few critical errors (probably because he stayed too late in the season, until the bears were looking for food before they hibernated) that he got killed.

@davidanderson6055 Жыл бұрын

In my recollection, something was happening with Treadwell. It was late in the year, the winds were blowing, the weather stormy, and he was in the Grizzly Maze. Something was driving him to stay, and he talked about this "bad bear" that even tried to sneak up on him at one point. He was a kind of mad man. A great man, in some ways, but mad. Amazing documentary

@matanuskabutler7566 Жыл бұрын

Treadwell got lucky for 13 years and that was it. The only thing extraordinary was that it hadn't happened sooner. Late in the season here in Alaska, there are TONS of berries, spawning fish, young animals from spring still not fully grown, ect. It wasn't hunger that got him killed, at least not alone. Generally, spring is more dangerous because they haven't eaten in months, which is why we find so many in Anchorage all summer because of the trash, 40 resident Grizzlies and over 100 resident Black Bear. I get to chase one away at work. As the previous reply comment stated, even Treadwell admitted there was an overly aggressive bear and he should have known FULL well to leave the area, especially with his experience with bears. He's another person who anthropomorphized animals and began thinking of them as Human and he paid the full price for believing animals work like we do.

@ErikB605 Жыл бұрын

@@matanuskabutler7566 To be fair. An agressive individual being his downfall doesn't really make a case against anthropomorphizing. He might as well have talked about a man with a knife stalking him before dieing.

@silvesby Жыл бұрын

@@ErikB605 Indeed. But it's important as naturalists to understand that though we see ourselves in animals, as we are too, they are not us. We can never really know how or what they think. I feel the more people are around animals, the more they perhaps personify them. It should be noted I see myself doing this as well, even unintentionally.

@benedickdanganan420 Жыл бұрын

I was waiting for someone to compare these films together. It's about time.

@bobbyologun1517 Жыл бұрын

i thought i was going to be Fires of Kuwait vs Lessons In Darkness

@puppable Жыл бұрын

I thought it was about volcanos

@jablanbukvovski Жыл бұрын

Maybe we could compare Abel Ferrara and Herzog as well, that sounds fun

@benedickdanganan420 Жыл бұрын

@@jablanbukvovski Bad Lieutenant

@jablanbukvovski Жыл бұрын

@@benedickdanganan420 yeah, guy loves to reload things

@bouncycow3010 Жыл бұрын

I happened to accidentally stumble across the herzog documentary on tv the other day, and oh wow, I was in a trance for the whole run time, it was incredible. How the music, images, and voice over all brings it together was just beautiful. Fantastic video, I’ll certainly be watching more from herzog!

@violinsinthevoid4579 Жыл бұрын

Cave of Forgotten Dreams is another great one! Wheel of Time is also a good, underrated documentary by him! His fictional films from the 70s are also incredible.

@bouncycow3010 Жыл бұрын

@@violinsinthevoid4579 Awesome, thanks! Ill certainly be checking out some more stuff by him

@OlYables Жыл бұрын

I like the one where he’s in McMurdo. Because I love hearing him say “McMurdo.”

@hermannretzlaff1070 Жыл бұрын

I’m not even gonna holdu this shit got me mad emotional. Mr. Like stories of old, I’m sure you have some idea, but I’d say the way you communicate the ideas you’ve explored, through your videos, is so eloquent and coherently effective that I’m overwhelmed by emotion because of it. I think you oughta be congratulated and deeply thanked for continuing the cycle, and so effectively passing on the message to us that we truly “aren’t alone” as Herzog says. This video was sublime

@TheLacedaemonian300 Жыл бұрын

Another wonderful piece of art that has the ability of reaching out of the screen and touching a part me in a novel and still nostalgic way. I love Herzog's work, his images and voice are a large contributor to the narration of my own life story. I think that this video is an adequate distillation of the spirit of his work. Very nicely done.

@Susie_Floozie Жыл бұрын

I am so grateful that Werner Hertzog exists and used his talents to brand our zeitgeist with his ecstatic truths. As a culture, we are so much richer for his shared visions.

@Zeitgeist6 Жыл бұрын

Herzog is fantastic. From his fictional works like Nosferatu or Aguirre: Wrath Of God to his documentaries like My Best Fiend and Into the Abyss. They always have a certain feel to it. It has this kind of hypnotic quality to it.

@avrelo_south 8 ай бұрын

My strongest memory of experiencing the sublime was ironically in my home province, Saskatchewan. Most of were I’ve lived is a massive prairie and I often travel to and from Saskatoon sand Regina. When near Saskatoon you’ll drive up a hill. It’s not crazy big, but it is high enough you can see a bit more of the land in front of you. You can see how big the land is. Unlike mountains, and deep valleys though, this was different. Yes these mountain, and the ocean are huge, certainly, but when I looked out across the prairie, it felt infinite. It’s like I could see the how large the earths crust was. I can see how small I am.

@aleksoctop Жыл бұрын

Wonderful video, and while I think Mubi is great, using Werner’s own words to sell the service at the end was a slap in the face of everything that came before it.

@Sam-lm8gi Жыл бұрын

A Limerick for Werner Herzog: A soldier of cinema extreme. Driven by strange fever dreams. He looks like a sleuth, For ecstatic truth, And in wildest landscapes it teems.

@juletaurus Жыл бұрын

As always, a great one, Tom. Loved that Herzog embraced this amazing couple and brought them to the mainstream for so many who did not know them. He certainly does film like no other.

@falkjericke Жыл бұрын

I want to express my deep gratitude to your work and you personally as a human being. For me, out of the countless channels I watched on KZfaq for over a decade now, you are in a league of your own (with only jonna jinton in it too, for everything I saw yet). What you both are achieving is something that transcends the mind itself. Your videos, that are pure art for me, overcome the limited truth of my thoughts and connect me with a deeper part of my being. Everything you do, from your voice, to the visuals, to the narrative radiates beauty and love. Thank you for everything you created so far and I am looking forward for everything yet to come. (And if someone knows other channels in this league I would gladly hear your recommendations)

@enotdetcelfer Жыл бұрын

Fantastic thank you. I will say one thing about the shot of the bushes and branches waving in the wind, and herzog's statement about it's own stardom. To me, it was about how we naturally fixate on the human as one deserving of our full attention as a character, whom we expect to express some message or action, and for whom we give a higher weight as the subject of a scene, but that the unexpected leaving of the person can leave our still active expectations to be turned to the other characters remaining, and that the message we can receive from them when we don't immediately switch to our assumptions of viewing an environment, can be elevated to a level where we realize that in our absence they have their own lives and their own character, maybe more than we give them credit for in our endless chasing of more human interaction and engagement.

@SeismoTechs Жыл бұрын

and here I am, fanboying over the wonderful tale of the Kraffts, true explorers who lived and died the way they wanted, leaving behind important work for the benefit of all of us ❤ I'm really curious about Herzog's version, tho I absolutely loved Fire of Love. to me it only goes to show how fascinating their story was; it's great that there are these different approaches existing of how to tell it.

@michaelbond4807 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely brilliant - you have excelled even your high standard of insightfulness, fluency, dramatic structuring of your argument, and dare we acknowledge, beauty! thank you again.

@Ice12287 Жыл бұрын

The script you made for this video was incredibly well done! Thank you for the opportunity to learn about these amazing works!

@projectstoicism Жыл бұрын

I just watched a clip of Nicolas Cage in Bad Lieutenant yesterday and found out Warner Herzog made that and someone else had made that same movie too. Thought "how fitting that LSOO makes the video about that at the same time I found out this fact" but it turns out Warner Herzog made the same movie as someone else TWICE ?

@dambaek. Жыл бұрын

This is my first time watching one of your videos @LikeStoriesofOld and I want to express my admiration and gratitude for a well-written, well-told and well-edited film on a beautiful subject.

@vonsopas Жыл бұрын

Man your stories in video always reach to the level of sublime. Beautifully crafted as always

@belllerofont Жыл бұрын

It's always such a special day, when I get to watch your video. There's nothing like that on a platform, your insight, perspective is quite unique and truly beautiful.

@SilojensenDK Жыл бұрын

Contemplation is such a rare treat in the sea of narrative.

@lowe-quay-shush Жыл бұрын

I love the tone of Hertzog's voice. Whatever he says over images. He could read from Mc Donald's menu list & sound profound.

@Quicksilver_Cookie 4 ай бұрын

Some of those shots are absolutely breathtaking. Quite literally made me hold my breath momentarily.

@meisterslx Жыл бұрын

I watched this movie in a cinema in Munich, Germany last year in a pre-screening, and Mr. Herzog was present. The lava images literally blew my mind. Krafft shot this on 16mm film (at one point you can see his Arri 16SR camera here), the footage therefore has great quality, it's shot professionally from a almost suicidal distance (or rather non-distance). A must-watch for everyone who is fascinated by volcanoes. After watching this video, I must admit what an incredible job Herzog did when putting the footage together. He said after the screening there were hundreds of hours of material to deal with. His cutter preselected first, then Herzog made the decisions, he also decided what to talk about in the voiceover, quite quickly, as he described. The music is superbly chosen, it elevates the absurd, mind-twisting images into something metapgisical, yet as real as nothing else. At one point he points out that the pictures and sounds of the Kraffts show us nothing less than the origin of life, the abyss where we all came from (the original sounds recorded by Mrs. Krafft are also very impressive and play an important part that cannnot be missed). The locations around the globe are chosen wisely. This movie is also really entertaining! A true masterpiece. I still remember every single magma shot shown here as if I saw them yesterday! Thank you for this great review!

@AnyoneCanSee Жыл бұрын

This was wonderfully thoughtful and excellently produced. Informative as well as contemplative. It was even emotionally moving. Thank you for the time and effort in creating this.

@balzize Жыл бұрын

The momentary illumination I got to follow my deepest passions after watching this video and having had the change to meet some extraordinary individuals through your video, is inexplicable. Thank you.

@ralph_bernhardt Жыл бұрын

I am so glad you created another video about Werner Herzog. This is one of the best KZfaq channels ever!

@crinklecut3790 Жыл бұрын

This is the best thing I’ve watched on YT in a very long time. Well done! 👍

@zakkziegler111 Жыл бұрын

*Huge* Herzog fan. Own nearly his entire filmography. Awesome work!

@jamesg2382 Жыл бұрын

What a great video. A really beautiful analysis and very thoughtful. Thank you.

@Tunda2 Жыл бұрын

Every word becomes more profound when spoken by Werner Herzog

@astro3213 Жыл бұрын

I find it so funny that this guy guest starred as himsef in the boondocks.. his voice is so recognizable.. 4:20

@lordofchaosinc.261 Жыл бұрын

Herzog is a legend, check out the footage where he's arguing with Klaus Kinski in the jungle.

@stevesmith4901 Жыл бұрын

Ironically, there is something sublime in the way Werner Herzog describes and expresses himself in his movies.

@brandonmorel2658 Жыл бұрын

His beautiful german accent and persona add a grandeur and heaviness to his documentaries.

@canobenitez Жыл бұрын

@@brandonmorel2658 add his old voice from nowadays and you have the winner combo

@cameleopard42 Жыл бұрын

Is that ironic?

@stevesmith4901 Жыл бұрын

@@cameleopard42 In a way yes, because he is searching for the sublime in nature, while his own voice is sublime.

@ToxicTurtleIsMad Жыл бұрын

@@stevesmith4901 it would be ironic if he didnt search for it

@osmark90 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this. I am presently writing my master's thesis on Herzog and these concepts along with how these spaces (Deleuzian "any-space-whatever") as perhaps threatened by the hegemony of ontic/factual metaphysics that obscures the distinction. I feel like there is a real need for a phenomenological distinction in the plurality of truth and I am discussing its possible integration within a philosophical framework of politics. I am a fan of your videos and it felt like it was a lovely chance occurence when I saw that you posted this video. Keep up the good work. Best, Oliver

@totchrome Жыл бұрын

Your videos…are the best! Best KZfaq you’ll ever find! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

@pagefilms Жыл бұрын

Great study! I’m a filmmaker from Hawaii chasing all our eruptions here. My first volcano film in 2014 is called The Fire Within and the experience changed my life. Herzog and the Kraffts are heroes of mine!

@alexoffthewall4237 Жыл бұрын

This is a work of beautiful truth itself. Really, really well done.

@mpc1mil Жыл бұрын

It still blows my mind when I see him in the mandalorian. I almost fell out my chair the first time

@hassanchoudhary4140 4 ай бұрын

This is my favourite video on youtube! Thank you!

@ifyouthinkthisworldisbad Жыл бұрын

What a great video. Thanks for always posting awesome content, very inspiring. Thank you

@carlkamuti Жыл бұрын

A beautiful analysis of a beautiful film, The Fire Within blew me away when I saw it: it was my favourite film of last year, and you've done it justice here with some amazing insights. 👍👍

@ProfessorBoswell Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this, you've made a great essay on Herzog, and nicely stated what makes him special. To me there's no one who has reached his level, calling him a filmmaker is almost reductive. He's a storyteller, a poet, a philosopher, and more. He reveals so much about humanity. I loved seeing clips from Fata Morgana and Signs of Life, two favorites. Anyone interested in him should get the book Herzog on Herzog, great set of interviews. (Small point, a truth of accountants, but if you're talking about Happy People when you say he went to the Taiga, he didn't actually go, that one was made from existing footage he edited.)

@monkeywizard7919 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely beautiful video. I had chills throughout.

@r.w.bottorff7735 6 ай бұрын

This is a beautifully rendered video. Thank you.

@dripworks6659 Жыл бұрын

Werner Herzog is one of the most intellegence filmmakers of all time. Such surreal insights not many others (or any others) ever express so profoundly as Herzog. The accent helps too lmao.

@zenmail42 Жыл бұрын

The most wonderful channel on KZfaq? An impossible question to answer, however every video is a meditation that deepens and enriches our lives. Thank you for this ❤

@user-ex5eo7vv9l 4 ай бұрын

nice job pal, really moving

@markcobb7040 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for these videos. Again, you've voice is so special I feel as though I could fall asleep to it.

@jacksonkingsley7414 Жыл бұрын

Loved this, thanks for making it!

@iankelly5797 Жыл бұрын

That was a fantastic presentation. Well done.

@Prodigy68 Жыл бұрын

Grew up with Werner Herzog, will watch anything by and about him. Great stuff, thanks!

@michaldobrzyn Жыл бұрын

I happened upon this and thought it was fantastic. It really awakened my emotions in a way that I'm not used to but appreciate.

@Suelenedeoliveira 6 ай бұрын

Beautifull images and commentary... Thank you for this moment of dream!

@0cer0 Жыл бұрын

THANKS! You have performed a miracle. I have encountered Werner Herzog again and again for decades when dealing with German film, and I have never liked him, never understood him. I lacked the lightness in him, the playfulness, even the philanthropy. In fact, this essay has now managed to bring him closer to me, to make him more understandable and also more sympathetic.

@corican Жыл бұрын

Amazing video, as always

@Daniel_Ilyich Жыл бұрын

This was a brilliant film essay! Thank you!

@dr1eleven1 Жыл бұрын

I needed this reminder of the power of filmmaking, thank you. I plan to watch and rewatch his adequate imagery,

@zeropluslessthan5126 Жыл бұрын

You have made a wonderful film here; thank you so much. So helpful to me and the highlight of my day.

@liltick102 Жыл бұрын

I recommend reading every novel by Herzog, watching all his film’s & documentaries, watching all of his interviews and videos pertinent to him ~~ Also this is an excellent video that does his wonderful work great justice.

@nhmooytis7058 Жыл бұрын

I wasn’t aware he wrote novels.

@liltick102 7 ай бұрын

@@nhmooytis7058for years, yeah - he just put out a new one weeks ago - a guide for the perplexed is my favourite but it’s rly just a 600 pg interview.

@AnubisofScorpio Жыл бұрын

I do like this sensation of the image captured while the people are turned away. It's not just the falling tree still making a noise in the forest without someone to notice it, even without humans, nature is still stunningly beautiful. We're always trying to see, hear or learn. That pause, that breather away from the constant noise of our brain, it's cool that we can capture it.

@dhwanishah3079 Жыл бұрын

Your insights perfectly complement Herzog's genius, such a delightful watch

@roberth9814 Жыл бұрын

Incredible essay, thank you for this.

@DarkAngelEU 11 ай бұрын

I still remember that part of Tokyo-Ga where Herzog complains about no virgin images being there anymore. I never really understood what he meant, but the fascination for human passions as you describe in this video essay sheds some new light on that particular scene. It is a city without poetry, there's no muse in the wind, as are so many places these days.

@kayod2356 11 ай бұрын

sublime video! my favorite yet

@dundeedolphin Жыл бұрын

Some profound and stimulating observations. Thank you.

@veersstreams9065 Жыл бұрын

This film about films about filmmakers was very enjoyable. Thank you!

@pdzombie1906 Жыл бұрын

Another beautiful and sublime video, Tom!! You're truly the Herzog of KZfaq (and not just because of the accent 😅) Thanx!!!

@Getro. 10 ай бұрын

This video was amazing! I really enjoyed it, keep it up!

@spassogrosso2037 Жыл бұрын

To be frank, that scale of that lava with the person in front of gives me cosmic horror. Once again, a very deep and sounded video, thank you!

@furisado4396 Жыл бұрын

I hope you feel fulfilled and proud making these videos, im very grateful to have you making them, discussing and articulating various works. They feed people`s soul, ty