kiddiepunk presents 'An Impassioned Werner Herzog Appreciation Day’

“I would travel down to Hell and wrestle a film away from the devil if it was necessary.”

-Werner Herzog


After spending most of this year immersing myself obsessively in the work of German filmmaker Werner Herzog, I found myself wanting to run down the stairs out of my apartment and onto the street shouting “Her-zog! Herzog!!” in the crazed state of a lunatic. Hence this impassioned post that Coop has generously pro-vided an outlet for. If you will indulge me with a bad analogy, Herzog’s best films are like drinking a sweet wine that settles in slowly and then somewhere down the line you find yourself completely intoxicated.

More experiential that mere ‘viewing’, Herzog’s instincts as a filmmaker are sublime. The power of his im-ages is so moving that so often I find myself wanting to burst into tears for an unknowable reason. His films seem to bypass the intellect and hit you straight in the guts. They have a transcendent quality to them that’s not ‘artsy-fartsy’ or sentimental, but rather, Herzog is a very ‘meat and potatoes’ type of filmmaker and al-though you can feel him behind the scenes pulling the strings, it’s more in the fashion a master craftsman of some forgotten time.


“Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism”.

-Werner Herzog