Film Screenings The Short Ecstasies of Werner Herzog
1h54m • PG
Werner Herzog’s abiding interest in the quixotic ambitions of eccentric outsiders comes to the fore in this trio of documentaries from early in his career.
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
Les Blank • USA 1980 • 20m • 16mm Documentary
Les Blank documents Herzog, as he honours his promise to eat his own shoe if Errol Morris ever
finished and released his film Gates of Heaven.
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
Werner Herzog • West Germany 1974 • 45m • Digital • German with
English subtitles • Documentary
Herzog brings intense focus to his examination of the factors driving a Swiss woodcarver to leave his
humble workshop and seek, through ski-jumping, the exhilaration of unfettered flight.
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck...
Werner Herzog • West Germany 1976 • 44m • Digital • Documentary
Herzog explores ”the last poetry possible, the poetry of capitalism”, as he documents the World Livestock Auctioneer Championship 1976 in New Holland, PA.
The screening will be introduced by Dr David Sorfa, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Edinburgh.