FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Werner Herzog - The Wild Blue Yonder 

When our colleague and video librarian Thomas Groh was supposed to interview Werner Herzog, he was just as nervous as if he had to meet God. Perhaps even a little more nervous, since Herzog is said to be no easy conversational partner. Incidentally, wrongly, because Herzog proved to be a charming Bavarian of the old school. One of the great "classics", the embodiment of the manic filmmaker, for whom even a human life in the service of art is not an impossible sacrifice. Herzog can make films about everything and make a film out of everything: In a way, The Wild Blue Yonder is a documentary about journeys through space and the anomalies in infinity. But above all, The Wild Blue Yonder is speculation about what the future might look like. But The Wild Blue Yonder is remembered above all because Herzog does without the usual CGI effects and uses footage from NASA instead. So his hard science fiction stuff is underpinned by real pictures! We dive under the ice of the Arctic and this serves the purpose of provoking our imagination so that we follow Duke's SciFi theses. His pictures are not simply intended to illustrate, but to prepare a ground for our thoughts. It's up to us to fill the voids that Herzog deliberately leaves - isn't that much more exciting than a linear way of narrating? Brad Dourif plays an alien who walks the planet Earth. In the near future, at least the earth is barren. A desert landscape. This scenario provides the framework for Herzog to ponder Roswell, wormholes and the pain of an alien.