“LESSONS OF DARKNESS” 1992 | 54’ [DE\FR\UK] | HERZOG: EARTH IN TRANCE
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## HERZOG: TERRA EM TRANSE
[HERZOG: EARTH IN TRANCE Cinema Screenings]
(Curadoria de Fábio Sequeira)
“LESSONS OF DARKNESS” 1992 | 54’ [DE\FR\UK] | Werner Herzog (1992 | 54’)
De Werner Herzog
Sábado Dia 23/05 às 20h15 [Saturday 05/23 at 8:15pm]
Filmado após a Guerra do Golfo, o documentário mostra paisagens petrolíferas em chamas no Kuwait, transformadas por Herzog numa visão quase cósmica de destruição. A guerra surge como espetáculo apocalíptico da civilização.
Filmed after the Gulf War, the documentary depicts burning oil fields in Kuwait, transformed by Herzog into a nearly cosmic vision of devastation. War appears as an apocalyptic spectacle of civilization.
Spoken in Deutsch | Subtitled in English
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With “FATA MORGANA” (1971), “LA SOUFRIÈRE” (1977) and “LESSONS OF DARKNESS” (1992), this cycle proposes a journey through three moments in which the cinema of Werner Herzog transforms the Earth into a space where reality and imagination merge.
Between desert mirages, an island suspended in anticipation of an eruption, and landscapes devastated by fire, Herzog films the world as if it were at once primordial and post-human. His images refuse the logic of traditional documentary, moving instead toward a sensorial and poetic form of cinema, where the landscape ceases to be a mere setting and becomes a living force — autonomous and, at times, incomprehensible.
Yet within this confrontation with the extreme, we do not encounter only destruction. We also encounter forms of presence: gestures of endurance, adaptation, and acceptance before forces that exceed the human. In Herzog’s cinema, humanity does not dominate nature — it inhabits it, resists within it, observes it.
“Herzog: Earth in Trance” brings together three films that reveal this constant tension between fascination and danger, beauty and catastrophe, proposing a cinematic experience in which the planet appears unstable, enigmatic, and profoundly alive.
(Curatorship by Fábio Sequeira)
All Cinema PROSA films will be shown on an illuminated pixel (65’’ QLED screen) in a room with a maximum capacity of 24 spectators.
Come and have a glass of wine or a non-alcoholic drink in the cinema room with us!