“FATA MORGANA” 1971 | 1h19’ [DE] | HERZOG: EARTH IN TRANCE Cinema Scrngs

HERZOG: TERRA EM TRANSE

[HERZOG: EARTH IN TRANCE Cinema Screenings]
(Curadoria de Fábio Sequeira)

“FATA MORGANA” 1971 | M/12 | 1h19’ [DE]
De Werner Herzog

Sexta Dia 22/05 às 19h30 [Friday 05/22 at 7:30pm]

Uma viagem hipnótica por desertos africanos onde miragens, ruínas e paisagens desoladas são acompanhadas por textos míticos. Herzog transforma o documentário numa meditação sobre criação, destruição e a imaginação humana.

A hypnotic journey through African deserts where mirages, ruins, and desolate landscapes are accompanied by mythic texts. Herzog transforms the documentary into a meditation on creation, destruction, and human imagination.

Spoken in Deutsch | Subtitled in English

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With “FATA MORGANA” (1971), “LA SOUFRIÈRE” (1977) and “LESSONS OF DARKNESS” (1992), this cycle proposes a journey through three moments in which the cinema of Werner Herzog transforms the Earth into a space where reality and imagination merge.
Between desert mirages, an island suspended in anticipation of an eruption, and landscapes devastated by fire, Herzog films the world as if it were at once primordial and post-human. His images refuse the logic of traditional documentary, moving instead toward a sensorial and poetic form of cinema, where the landscape ceases to be a mere setting and becomes a living force — autonomous and, at times, incomprehensible.

Yet within this confrontation with the extreme, we do not encounter only destruction. We also encounter forms of presence: gestures of endurance, adaptation, and acceptance before forces that exceed the human. In Herzog’s cinema, humanity does not dominate nature — it inhabits it, resists within it, observes it.

***“Herzog: Earth in Tran