The Venice Movie Competition will honor iconoclastic German director Werner Herzog — whose physique of labor includes “Aguirre, the Wrath of God,” “Fitzcarraldo” and Nosferatu the Vampyre” — with its 2025 Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.
“I really feel deeply honored to obtain a Lifetime Achievement Honorary Golden Lion by the Venice Biennale,” Herzog stated in an announcement. “I’ve all the time tried to be a Good Soldier of Cinema, and this looks like a medal for my work: Thanks.”
“Nevertheless,” Herzog went on to notice, “I’ve not gone into retirement.”
“I work as all the time. Just a few weeks in the past, I simply completed a documentary in Africa, ‘Ghost Elephants,’ and at this second, I’m taking pictures my subsequent characteristic movie, ‘Bucking Fastard,’ in Eire. I’m creating an animated movie, primarily based on my novel, ‘The Twilight World,’ and I’m appearing the voice of a creature in Bong Joon Ho’s upcoming animated movie. I’m not executed but,” he added.
Venice inventive director Alberto Barbera known as the director “a bodily filmmaker and indefatigable hiker,” saying he “always crosses the planet Earth pursuing hitherto unseen pictures, testing our potential to look, difficult us to understand what lies past the looks of actuality, and probing the boundaries of filmic illustration in an unflagging seek for the next, ecstatic reality and new sensorial experiences. Establishing himself as one of many main innovators of New German Cinema with movies akin to “Indicators of Life,” “Nosferatu the Vampyre,” “Aguirre, the Wrath of God” and “Fitzcarraldo,” “Unhealthy Lieutenant,” “Port of Name: New Orleans” and “Grizzly Man.”
Barbera added: “He has by no means ceased from testing the boundaries of the movie language, belying the standard distinction between documentary and fiction, and on the identical time proposing a radical investigation of the matters of communication, the connection between pictures and music, and of the infinite fantastic thing about nature and its inevitable corruption.”
Barbera stated that Herzog is the “final inheritor of the nice custom of German romanticism” with a profession that is “each fascinating and dangerous as a result of it entails whole dedication and placing oneself on the road to the purpose of bodily danger, the place disaster always lurks.”
The upcoming 82nd version of Venice will run Aug. 27-Sept. 6.
