
Lessons of Darkness
Lessons of Darkness is a 1992 film directed by Werner Herzog. Shot in documentary style on 16-millimetre film from the perspective of an almost alien observer, the film is an exploration of the ravaged oil fields of post-Gulf War Kuwait, decontextualised and characterised in such a way as to emphasise the terrain's cataclysmic strangeness. An effective companion to his earlier film Fata Morgana, Herzog again perceives the desert as a landscape with its own voice.
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author | Werner Herzog |
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director | Werner Herzog |
editor | Rainer Standke |
events | Gulf War |
musicBy | Richard Wagner |
producer | Lucki Stipetić Paul Berriff |
productionCompany | Canal+ Première Werner Herzog Filmproduktion |
publisher | Werner Herzog Filmproduktion |
theme | avant-garde and experimental documentary |