Wednesday, November 21, 2007

A truth beyond the merely factual

Roger Ebert writes a letter to Werner Herzog:
You often say this modern world is starving for images. That the media pound the same paltry ideas into our heads time and again, and that we need to see around the edges or over the top. When you open “Encounters at the End of the World” by following a marine biologist under the ice floes of the South Pole, and listening to the alien sounds of the creatures who thrive there, you show me a place on my planet I did not know about, and I am richer. You are the most curious of men. You are like the storytellers of old, returning from far lands with spellbinding tales.

[...] you speak of “ecstatic truth,” of a truth beyond the merely factual, a truth that records not the real world but the world as we dream it.

[...] You have the audacity to believe that if you make a film about anything that interests you, it will interest us as well. And you have proven it.
Read the full piece.

(Earlier post on Herzog here)

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