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Herzog, Landscape, and Documentary
- Cinema Journal
- University of Texas Press
- 48, Number 2, Winter 2009
- pp. 49-69
- 10.1353/cj.0.0080
- Article
- Additional Information
This essay explores Werner Herzog's approach to landscape as a site for performing his notion of documentary as a repudiated mode of filmmaking. What emerges from this ironic performance is an alternative documentary epistemology, one that refers primarily to the inner world of affect and to forms of embodied knowledge.