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Avoid spoilers and watch the documentary here. And if that has whetted your appetite for Werner Herzog’s mesmeric timbre, see the links below for him in Rick and Morty, and starring as a plastic bag. 

Films referenced: 

Grizzly Man (2005) dir. by Werner Herzog

Blonde (2022) dir. by Andrew Dominick

The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) dir. by Martin Scorsese 

Passport to Paradise (2022) dir. by OI Parker

Into the Inferno (2016) dir. by Werner Herzog

Other sources:

Trent Griffiths, ‘An Argument across Time and Space: Mediated Meetings in Grizzly Man’, Networking Knowledge (2014)

Paul Arthur, ‘Beyond the Limits: Werner Herzog’s metaphysical realism: 40 years of boldly going where no documentary has gone before’, Film Comment (July-August 2005)

Elif Akçalı and Cüneyt Çakırlar, ‘A Form of Proto-Cinema: Aesthetics of Werner Herzog’s Documentary Essayism’, Cineaction (2016)

Werner Herzog in Rick and Morty, youtube.com

Werner Herzog in Plastic Bag (2010) dir. by Ramin Bahrani, youtube.com

Werner Herzog hypnotized his actors, youtube.com

Editing and production by Lily Austin, original theme music by James Brailsford. Thank you to Abby-Jo Sheldon for our logo.

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Edited and produced by Lily Austin and James Brailsford
Original music by James Brailsford

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