TIFF20: “It’s transparent that there’s something to do with wonderful admiration, which is innate in film and science,” says the German author.
Werner Herzog says in his new film “Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds” that to be a scientist, you need a sense of wonder. This is a quality that applies to almost every single Herzog documentary and meteor science research with Clive Oppenheimer, aimed to capture the good looks scientists feel when exploring the unknown.
“Fireball” fuses the science and mathematics of meteorites and asteroids with the culture, faith and mythologies that have evolved over the millennia of this fascination with those ancient elements of the outer zone. End of the World,” Herzog asked broader, non-secular questions than simply asking where the rocks in the area come from.
“Clive never had a dull moment in it, and it was very visual, very beautiful, however, I knew it had to do with science, but with concern for discovery, concern about how unknown it comes to us from space, and all the problems involved, not just mythologies,” Herzog told Steve Pond of TherapW in TIFF’s Virtual Studio. “It is transparent that there is something to do with a wonderful admiration, which is innate in film and science. “
Herzog and Oppenheimer to meteorite craters around the world, from the Caribbean to India and Antarctica, and in every place they sought to look for more than just the terrain.
“I tried to happen to have an effect on the crater where we didn’t just move to a hole in the ground. We would link what we saw to deep oral traditions on the site, on a star falling to Earth. guided through anything cinematic and visual, but also where we can intertwine those themes of herbal phenomena with our cultural imagination,” Oppenheimer said.
Oppenheimer then took a meteorite from his shelf and explained how this little fragment story and wonder.
“You cannot touch an object older than this; he’s 4 billion and a half years old,” he said. “We have a great sense of respect for those objects again, and we have them. hunted anywhere they landed, either in a museum or in a kennel. “
But even in the moments of “Fireball” when scientists dressed in glasses and lab coats disguise the complexity of mathematics and geology, Herzog frames everything with a visual eye and the same sense of fear. In the film, we see remarkable and colorful microscopic drawings in the dust debris of the area that are very unlikely to be believed naturally on Earth.
“There’s a kind of wild and whole theoretical math stuff and a box expedition in the middle of nowhere,” Herzog says of the film. “Therefore, not only do they have an effect on craters or mythologies, there are also natural mathematics that are beautiful to see when you see them illustrated. “
“Fireball: Dark World Visitors” will be available on Apple TV by the end of this year. See TheWrap’s interview with Herzog and Oppenheimer above.
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