About

For nearly half a century, Werner Herzog (b. 1942) has crafted films with audacity and fearless vision. Emerging as part of the groundbreaking German New Wave in the late 1960s, Herzog has continued to consistently produce mesmerising tales of obsession, conquest and the sublime. His films and documentaries blur the line between fact and fiction, reaching for higher ecstatic truths. Renowned for the scope of his vision and the off-screen sagas behind his cinematic tales, Herzog's legacy is replete with triumphs both grand and intimate in scale. This free program presents a wide selection of works drawn from the director's storied career — from early German masterworks to Hollywood eccentricities and all the spellbinding stories in between.