Werner Herzog
Australia Wants to Log in a World Heritage Rainforest
At the same time, a ton of new nominees are up for vote, including the 'Cave of Forgotten Dreams.'
LA's Best Art House Theater Had a 24-Hour Telethon
The Cinefamily, an organization dedicated to exhibiting interesting and hard-to-find films, had its annual telethon last weekend in Los Angeles. Miranda July, Tim Heidecker, Mike Judge, and more came out to help keep the group's activities funded.
Step Into The Cave Of Sound
Inspired by Werner Herzog, new interactive sound installation explores the power of music and technology on our psyche.
Werner Herzog Made a Documentary About the Dangers of Texting While Driving
And more film stuff from the Grolsch Film Works blog.
Werner Herzog and Errol Morris Talk About 'The Act of Killing'
On paper, The Act of Killing is concerned with the genocide of Chinese people in Indonesia between 1965 and '66. But what elevates the film is the fact that director Joshua Oppenheimer chronicles these killings through reenactments gleefully...
Joshua Oppenheimer and Indonesia's Murderous Playboys
Director Joshua Oppenheimer traveled to Indonesia for a project that brought him in contact with people who survived the 1965 government massacre of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI), when anywhere between 500,000 and 3 million PKI members were...
Werner Herzog And Trevor Paglen Discuss Blasting Art Into Space To Amuse Aliens
This November, Paglen’s ambitious art project The Last Pictures—a collection of photographs etched into a silicon disk—will launch in space via a communications satellite.
Werner Herzog Made a Weird Documentary About The Killers
Why did Werner Herzog decide to film a documentary and an "online concert event" featuring The Killers? Probably because American Express and VEVO paid him a lot of money. Also: why not?
The Year in Interviews: Art!
_Motherboard spent much of 2011 talking to the smartest, coolest, and craziest people in tech, culture, and the web. It made for a mountain of interviews filled with knowledge direct from the source, the best of which we've collected here in the first...
Werner Herzog's Favorite Obscure Dutch Painter
In last year's "Cave of Forgotten Dreams," Werner Herzog’s attraction to the little-known and unlikely corners of the world took him and his 3d camera to the caverns that house the world’s oldest paintings. His tastes run towards more modern art too.