On Blank's screen: Les Blank's Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe and the gravity of the director's subject
2010; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 4; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1386/sdf.4.2.119_1
ISSN1750-3299
Autores Tópico(s)Photography and Visual Culture
ResumoABSTRACTLes Blank's documentary Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980) depicts the film-maker Werner Herzog dining on pieces of his own thick-soled shoe in public in order to settle a bet with a fellow film-maker, Errol Morris. The film has generally been treated as part of Herzog's vast body of work, but this article argues that the documentary must also be understood in light of Blank's film-making practices. Herzog's voice pervades the film, yet Blank's signature style is evident throughout. In terms of narrative, their points of view can be seen to compete. The following article first examines the problems and contradictions that come of extricating the two film-makers' voices from one another. It then explores the distinctive hallmarks of Blank's style and analyses where Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe is situated in relation to that film-maker's body of work. The article concludes by examining what happens when Herzog himself films a film-maker, as he did in Grizzly Man (2005), and explores some of the issu...
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