“LESSONS OF DARKNESS” 1992 | 54’ [DE\FR\UK] | HERZOG: EARTH IN TRANCE

HERZOG: TERRA EM TRANSE

[HERZOG: EARTH IN TRANCE Cinema Screenings]
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“LESSONS OF DARKNESS” 1992 | 54’ [DE\FR\UK] | Werner Herzog (1992 | 54’)
De Werner Herzog

Sábado Dia 23/05 às 20h15 [Saturday 05/23 at 8:15pm]

Filmado após a Guerra do Golfo, o documentário mostra paisagens petrolíferas em chamas no Kuwait, transformadas por Herzog numa visão quase cósmica de destruição. A guerra surge como espetáculo apocalíptico da civilização.

Filmed after the Gulf War, the documentary depicts burning oil fields in Kuwait, transformed by Herzog into a nearly cosmic vision of devastation. War appears as an apocalyptic spectacle of civilization.

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.

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