Fata Morgana 1971 G
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When
2.45pm, Sat 10 Jun 2017 (79 mins)Where
Gallery of Modern Art & Cinema A
About
'Fata Morgana' was a difficult film to make, but I learnt how to wrestle something creative from a bad set of circumstances and come up with something clear, transparent and pure.
Fata Morgana will screen from an archival 35mm film print.
Fata Morgana ('a mirage') is a visual poem – a film borne from footage Herzog shot in and around the Sahara Desert, at first in the hopes of crafting a science-fiction film before eventually painting a dystopian portrait of our own planet. The film is split into three sections: Creation, Paradise, and The Golden Age. The incredible, mesmerising footage is accompanied by German classical masses, folk ballads by Leonard Cohen, and readings from a Herzog-penned imitation of the Guatemalan holy text The Popul Vuh. Fata Morgana is a hypnotising vision of a planet left to ruin - unfathomable and entrancing.
Production Credits
- Director /Script: Werner Herzog
- Cinematographer: Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
- Editor: Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus
- Production Company: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion
- Print Source: Deutsche Kinemathek
- Rights: Werner Herzog Film Gmbh
- Screening Format: 35mm
- Year: 1971
- Runtime: 79 minutes
- Country: West Germany
- Language: German
- Sound: Mono
- Colour: Colour