This is a video for “Heaven” by Health. Although it certainly perverts one of the greatest documentary moments of all time, the opening from Werner Herzog’s The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner, it’s quite an effective music video. The context offered by the rest of the film, filled with Herzogian preoccupations with existential struggle and human conquest, greatly enhances the already immense pleasure of this decontextualized version.
I’ll take ecstatic truth over accountant’s truth any day.
