The German Film Festival is currently taking place until 27 of April in Wellington, presenting 12 documentaries of exceptional German filmmaker Werner Herzog, in cooperation with the New Zealand Film Archive.
Werner Herzog is known as a director of the New German Cinema, perhaps best known for his picturesque features like Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Nosferatu or Fitzcarraldo. Since the 1960s the autodidact earned beyond the German borders, particularly in the USA, an excellent reputation as an auteur. He has directed, written and produced more than fifty documentaries, feature films and short films as well as writing books and directing operas. Music and sound are major motifs in his work as a filmmaker. In this respect Herzog can be seen as a film poet, whose cinematography is motivated by the search for the sublime; he does not merely report or document, he seeks "deeper strata of truth in cinema, [which] is mysterious and elusive, and can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization".
Find the complete film programme here