MVP: Werner Herzog

WERNER HERZOG

REQUIEM FOR A DYING PLANET

“Mr. Herzog has become one of the greatest and most original of documentary filmmakers.”

— The New York Times

While music has always played a significant role In the films of visionary director Werner Herzog, it is the extreme larger-than-life narratives of his movies, often blurring the boundaries between reality and fiction, that have earned him a reputation as a pioneering and often controversial documentary filmmaker. For this unique cine-concert, however, Herzog brings music to the forefront in a thrilling collaboration with Dutch cellist and composer Ernst Reijseger, Senegalese singer and instrumentalist Mola Sylla and the Sardinian shepherd choir Cuncordu e Tenore de Orosei. Set to original music performed live, Requiem for a flying Planet features two of the director’s most visually stunning documentaries—The Wild Blue Yonder, which intercuts NASA footage with images of abysses below the Antarctic ice cap and The White Diamonds, filmed on board an aerostat over the spectacular Kaieteur Falls in Guyana.

Prior to the performance, Herzog will sit down with Paul Höldengraber, director of public programs at the New York Public Library to discuss his work and more.

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Fri, Feb 20 at 8pm • Royce Hall $48/36/28 ($13 UCLA Student.)

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