A Lesson from Lessons of Darkness

My 13th video essay. This is a video essay about an ongoing series of revelations I experienced while and after watching the Werner Herzog film Lessons of Darkness. All clips are used under fair use/criticism. Film clips from: Lessons of Darkness (Werner Herzog, 1992) Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog, 1982) Land of Silence and Darkness (Werner Herzog, 1971) Aguirre, The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972) The White Diamond (Werner Herzog, 2004) The Wild Blue Yonder (Werner Herzog, 2005) Into the Inferno (Werner Herzog, 2016) Mythology of Memory (Justin Brown, 2021) Unseen Dreams (Justin Brown, 2022) Figueroa Smile (Justin Brown, 2022) Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986) The Devil's Rejects (Rob Zombie, 2005) Inland Empire (David Lynch, 2006) Collective (Alexander Nanau, 2019) The Love Witch (Anna Biller, 2016) Cops (Edward F Kline & Buster Keaton, 1922) The Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1986) Day of the Locust (John Schlesinger, 1975) Effortless (Ben Woodiwiss, 1999) The English Patient (Anthony Minghella, 1996) The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980) Possession (Andrzej Zulawski, 1981) The Third Part of the Night (Andrzej Zulawski, 1971) The Substance (Coralie Fargeat, 2024) Archive interview footage #wernerherzog #EcstaticTruth #documentary #poetry #videoessay #filmcriticism #herzog