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Everyone was just dancin' to the music. In this new book, a hyperlinked hodgepodge of fixations, vivid memoir, and Wikipedia-esque snapshots, Herzog delves into the true, the mostly true, the apocryphal, and the conspiratorial, expanding gay themes and experiences that also appear in Every Man for Himself and God Against Allhis memoir.

This short clip, discovered and posted by Herzog and Waters fan, Robert Maier, author of "Low Budget Hell: Making Underground Movies with John Waters" is werner a conversation in the Sounds like me as a little kid. A willingness to deceive ourselves seems to be an essential part of our makeup.

No idea the Village People were gay. Even after directing dozens of films, including the visionary classics Aguirre, the Wrath of God; Fitzcarraldo; and herzoge such as Little Dieter Needs to Fly and Grizzly Manthe year-old Herzog continues to chronicle madness, violence, and obsession as if the task were assigned to him by God himself.

But things seemed a bit too perfect. For Herzog, the experience confirmed his ability as an artist to manipulate reality and generate a new, concrete truth in the process. Did this really happen? To fully articulate his case, he revisits his own work, arguing that manipulation and a bit of deceit in filmmaking are essential to uncovering deeper truth.

He begins by explaining that he struggles to understand irony, often taking things very literally. Herzog recounts an experience he had while portraying a Catholic priest in a film. Pretty cool. The Betty and Barney Hill abduction, D.

By the third grade, I had become a chubby, big-haired, walking encyclopedia of the catastrophic and the unknown. His filmed confession to an actor playing a priest felt so much better, was much more liberating, than the real thing.

I wondered. And more: We are going to experience a reinterpretation of our role in reality, and of the understanding of this reality. So the fact that he only recently began to suspect, after decades of friendship, that his.

War, suffering, insanity, loss—it all must be seen or experienced to become true. With an all-consuming grandiosity befitting an Aguirre or Fitzcarraldo, he reckons with a world in which accepted truths are no longer sacrosanct, one scrambled by deepfakes, online avatarism, fake news, and artificial intelligence.

Even after Herzog pointed out that he was merely playing a role, the man insisted. German filmmaker Werner Herzog specializes in movies that plumb the very depths of the human condition. To Herzog, this proclivity of ours is a virtue.

Ours was a community of deeply religious, hardworking oil-and-gas men and women, beautiful families with manicured lawns, gas-guzzling SUVs, Little League, country clubs, marching band, and Outback Steakhouse. Absent real answers, I turned to the gay lodging provincetown and the supernatural, obsessing over inexplicable phenomena, conspiracy theories, calamitous predictions of doom via civilization-ending comet or pandemic.

Inwhen the film Gates of Heaven premiered, Herzog cooked and publicly ate his shoe; the event was later incorporated into a short documentary, Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (), by Les Blank. Growing up in a suburban utopia outside of Houston, I wanted for little.

Victims of pyramid schemes, aficionados of professional wrestling and opera alike, alleged alien abductees: All have elected, on some level, to participate in their own deception. What deeper truths were lurking? And so Herzog suggested filming his confession and the man agreed.

Is it merely allegory? In the documentary On the Ecstasy of Ski-Flying: Werner Herzog in Conversation with Karen Beckman, the German director reveals that he was surprised to discover that Waters is gay.