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.
ah Woodcarver Steiner… I had forgotten about that one. One of his best early documentaries, along with La Soufriere.
Apparently it is his first in which he appears on camera, but somehow he still manages to retain his enigmatic mystery.
After hearing all the legends surrounding his superhuman disregard for self-preservation in the film, I really want to see La Soufriere.
Fata Morgana and the Woodabe too.
Somehow i missed the point. Probably lost in translation :) Anyway … nice blog to visit.
cheers, Cooperate!!!