Becoming Animal in Documentary Film The Cave of Forgotten Dreams by Werner Herzog
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How does film problematize the human-animal relationship? This article develops this question by analysing the film Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010). In this film, German filmmaker Werner Herzog (1942-) delves into one of the most fascinating discoveries of all time: the art of the Chauvet Cave (30.000 to 32.000 BP). The text proposes that, through the physical involvement of the viewing public, the focus on affect and the intertwining of reality and fiction, the documentary develops a field of intensities that allows us to glimpse a becoming animal through film.
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Obras audiovisuales
Land of Silence and Darkness (Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit). Documental escrito, dirigido y producido por Werner Herzog, 1971.
Aguirre. The Wrath of God (Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes). Filme de épico-histórico dirigido por Werner Herzog, producido por Filmproduktion y Hessischer Rundfunk,1972.
Heart of Glass (Herz aus Glass). Filme de ficción escrito y dirigido por Werner Herzog, producido por Werner Herzog y Filmproduktion, 1976.
Fitzcarraldo. Filme de ficción escrito y dirigido por Werner Herzog, producido por Werner Herzog, Filmproduktion y Wildlife Films Perú, 1982.
Burden of Dreams. Documental sobre la realización de la película Fitzcarraldo de Werner Herzog dirigido por Les Blanc, 1982.
Grizzly Man. Documental sobre el ecologista Timothy Treadwell, dirigido por Werner Herzog, producida por Lions Gate Films, 2005.
Encounters at the End of the World. Documental sobre la Antártica, dirigido por Werner Herzog, producido por Erik Nelson, Henry Kaiser, Phil Fairclough, Dave Harding, Julian Hobbs y Andrea Meditch 2007.
The Cave of Forgotten Dreams. Documental sobre las pinturas rupestres de Chauvet, Francia, dirigido por Werner Herzog, producido por Erik Nelson y Adrienne Ciuffo, 2010.