Little Dieter Needs to Fly
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A 1992 documentary film by Werner Herzog that explores the ravaged oil fields of post-Gulf War Kuwait. The film uses epic and religious language, Wagnerian music and surreal imagery to create a vision of catastrophe and apocalypse.
Lessons of Darkness (German: Lektionen in Finsternis) is a 1992 film by director Werner Herzog. Shot in documentary style on 16-millimetre film from the perspective of an almost alien obs ...more...
- 54 min
- 31.9K
- The Viceregal Archive
Jun 9, 2022 · A film by Werner Herzog that explores the ravaged oil fields of post-Gulf War Kuwait in a surreal and alien perspective. The film was financed by Canal+ and Première and is available on Internet Archive.
- 54 min
Lessons of Darkness: Directed by Werner Herzog. With Werner Herzog. This film surveys the disaster of the Kuwaiti oil fields in flames, with little narration and scarcely any interviews. Hell on Earth is presented in such transcendent visions and music that one can only be fascinated by it.
- (6.8K)
- Documentary, War
- Werner Herzog
- 2002-10-26
Jun 20, 2023 · On April 30, 1999, Werner Herzog delivered – in his iconic Bavarian monotone – a manifesto titled “Lessons of Darkness” at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. The now-famous Minnesota Declaration outlined his opposition to documentary filmmaking that makes claims to represent an objective, unaltered version of reality.
Oct 2, 2010 · A review of Herzog's 1991 film about the burning oil fields in Kuwait during the Gulf War. The reviewer praises Herzog's aesthetic and storytelling approach, and his blurring of truth and fiction in his documentaries.
Nov 12, 2020 · If it’s possible to think of Michon’s film as a spiritual predecessor to Werner Herzog’s Lessons Of Darkness, which was shot almost a century later in the post-Gulf War oil fields of Kuwait...
