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Werner Herzog To Receive Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion For Lifetime Achievement
Venice runs August 27th to September 6th.
Venice head Alberto Barbera described Herzog as a “physical filmmaker and indefatigable hiker” who is always “testing our ability to look, challenging us to grasp what lies beyond the appearance of reality, and probing the limits of filmic representation in an unflagging search for a higher, ecstatic truth and new sensorial experiences.” “Establishing himself as one of the major innovators of New German Cinema with films such as Signs of Life; Nosferatu the Vampyre; Aguirre, the Wrath of God; and Fitzcarraldo, Bad Lieutenant, Port of Call: New Orleans, and Grizzly Man, he has never ceased from testing the limits of the film language, belying the traditional distinction between documentary and fiction, and at the same time proposing a radical investigation of the topics of communication, the relationship between images and music, and of the infinite beauty of nature and its inevitable corruption,” Barbera said. A brilliant narrator of unusual stories, Herzog is also the last heir of the great tradition of German romanticism, a visionary humanist, and a tireless explorer dedicated to perpetual wandering, in search (as he said) «of a decent and fitting place for mankind, a Landscape of the Soul.”
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