TALK
THURSDAY 24 MAR 2011, 19H
49 NORD 6 EST - FRAC LORRAINE - METZ (57)
Werner Herzog, an apocalyptic vision
by Michael Kummer (film director and instructor at ESAMM)
« Aguirre, la colère de Dieu » de Werner Herzog, 1972
The “becoming of power” forms the contours of the German film maker Werner Herzog’s work: a corpus teeming with kings, conquerors of the worthless. In Herzog’s films power is fatal and vain; it disintegrates. This is the origin of his obsession with understanding why great civilizations ended in chaos… The phantom of war is always present, as in the film Lessons of Darkness which constitutes the starting point of this conference. It opens with film extracts, dating from the 1970s to the present, and a viewing guide is offered to help grasp this brilliant oeuvre.
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Michaël Kummer
He studied at the École des Beaux Arts in Marseille, in the California College of Art in Oakland, CA, and in Le Fresnoy in Tourcoing, France, where he has developed a mixed approach to video and cinema. He is an instructor at the École Supérieure d’Art in Metz Métropole, an author, and director of fiction films.
