Join Scarecrow Video and the Seattle Art Museum for a tribute with Filmmaker Werner Herzog
November 6th - 9th, 2005

Filmmaker in Attendance! Discount for SIFF Members!
Scarecrow Video and Seattle Art Museum present the North American Premiere of Werner Herzog’s The Wild Blue Yonder and the Seattle Premiere of Wheel of Time, Lessons of Darkness, and White Diamond.

Werner Herzog’s deeply personal, uncompromising documentaries and fiction films (Fata Morgana, Aguirre the Wrath of God, The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser, Heart of Glass, Fitzcarraldo) made him a pioneer of the New German Cinema in the 1970s and early 1980s. A poetic fartraveler of the mind and body, Herzog is obsessed with the loneliness and alienation of the human condition, and the outsiders and holy fools who, in pushing themselves to psychological and physical extremes, touch the hidden source of “ecstatic truths.” A philosopher and a magician, Herzog conjures visions that reveal the metaphysical core of everyday reality. Herzog’s romantic quest to “find new images” imbues even his documentaries with the resonance of myth, as in 2005’s powerful Grizzly Man (shown at SIFF).

Werner Herzog will be present to introduce and discuss all films.

TICKETS ARE LIMITED!! ACT FAST!
For tickets call Scarecrow Video, 206-524-8554. Tickets per film: $12 general public, $10 SAM & SIFF Group members.

Schedule of Films
The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)
Tuesday, November 8, 7:30 p.m.
Seattle Art Museum Auditorium
This film, which has been called a “scif-fi IMAX movie, wowed film critics from London to Hollywood to Rome at the recent Venice Film Festival, where the picture won a special award. The Wild Blue Yonder combines existential mystery, deadpan humor and earthly/cosmic beauty in a mesmerizing flow of images and sound. A space alien with attitude (Brad Dourif) chronicles the history of his people on our planet and asks us troubling questions. When earthlings journey to Dourif’s world they make some startling discoveries. 90 min.

Lessons of Darkness (1992)
Tuesday, November 8, 9:15pm
Seattle Art Museum Auditorium
Herzog calls this “the sister film of The Wild Blue Yonder.” It’s a breathtakingly beautiful experience of hell, as men dressed like astronauts try to extinguish the monstrous roaring columns of oil-well fires ignited by the Desert Storm war in Kuwait. 50 min.

Wheel of Time (2003)
Wednesday, November 9, 7:30 p.m.
Seattle Art Museum Auditorium
In this film, which features the compassionate presence of the Dali Lama, Herzog’s presentation of Tibetan Buddhist pilgrimage rituals involving 500,000 people becomes a plea for political and spiritual freedom. 80min.

The White Diamond (2004)
November 9, 9:15 p.m.
Seattle Art Museum Auditorium
We follow Herzog into the lost world of the pristine Guyanan rain forest, where Dieter Dorrington will attempt to explore the region in a helium balloon-a feat Dorrington’s friend died trying to accomplish 12 years earlier. 87 min.

*Special work-in-progress screening!*
Walking to Werner
Sunday, November 6, 7:30 p.m.
Seattle Art Museum Auditorium
We’ll start our Werner Herzog celebration with a preview of the compelling documentary Walking to Werner.

In 1983 Herzog walked from Germany to Paris to see his dying mentor, film historian Lotte Eisner. And in 2005 Northwest filmmaker Linas Phillips left the Seattle city limits on foot, vowing to walk all the way to Werner Herzog’s house in Los Angeles. With his long blond hair and determined face, Linas reminds us of Klaus Kinski as he acts out his obsessive inspiration , his physical ordeal becoming a spiritual journey. 98 min.

Linas Phillips will be present to discuss his film, and this screening will be a benefit for him. Tickets for this benefit screening only: $10 general public and SIFF/SAM members. For tickets, call Scarecrow Video at 206-524-8554.