In a forbidden recess of the cave, there is a footprint of an eight year old boy next to the footprint of a wolf. Did the hungry wolf stalk the boy? Or did they walk together as friends? Or were they tracks made thousands of years apart? We’ll never know…
Werner Herzog
Facts per se are not so interesting for me. Facts do not illuminate; they create norms. I’ve always said we have to look beyond realism, beyond facts. We have to dig into a deeper stratum of truth which is somehow deeply inherent in cinema but which is very hard to find and to create. I’m looking for moments that are somehow illuminating. In some of my films, I hope there are a few moments where you feel almost illuminated, like in a state of ecstasy, stepping out of yourself, beyond yourself and perceiving something which is only, in the case of cinema, possible in collective dreams. Through imagination, stylization and invention, we become much more truthful.
Werner Herzog.
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Recognition of Israel
At midnight on May 14, 1948, the Provisional Government of Israel proclaimed the new State of Israel.
On that same date, the United States...
