Film: Little Dieter Needs to Fly
[Bristol] Alice | 24.06.2010 11:22
Werner Herzog persuades a former US pilot to return to the jungle sites of his capture.
This film is also part of Known Unknowns, a film season which explores the camera's role not only in recording events, but also in producing them; it explores the implications of the camera as an agent of change, something which can deceive and beguile as easily as it can record.
Fri 13 Aug 6.30pm
With typical brilliance and idiosyncrasy Herzog persuades a former US pilot who was shot down over Vietnam to return to the jungle sites of his capture and internment to retell and restage the unbelievable details of his horrific experience, all the while being harassed by AK-47-brandishing Vietnamese actors.
Dir. Werner Herzog, France/UK/Germany, 1997, 1h 20m
This film is also part of Known Unknowns, a film season which explores the camera's role not only in recording events, but also in producing them; it explores the implications of the camera as an agent of change, something which can deceive and beguile as easily as it can record.
Fri 13 Aug 6.30pm
With typical brilliance and idiosyncrasy Herzog persuades a former US pilot who was shot down over Vietnam to return to the jungle sites of his capture and internment to retell and restage the unbelievable details of his horrific experience, all the while being harassed by AK-47-brandishing Vietnamese actors.
Dir. Werner Herzog, France/UK/Germany, 1997, 1h 20m
[Bristol] Alice
Original article on IMC Bristol:
http://bristol.indymedia.org/article/692652