Before Sunrise
Wojciech Sitek
sitek.wojtek@gmail.comUniversity of Wroclaw (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4550-7679
Abstract
On the surface, the book Lekcje ciemności. Kino dokumentalne Wernera Herzoga [Lessons of Darkness: Werner Herzog’s Documentaries] (2020) by Magdalena Kempna-Pieniążek is a guide to the documentary cinema of the German director. Upon closer examination, though, the publication reveals its pioneering character. The reviewer draws attention to the author’s compelling attempt to place Herzog’s films in the context of Romantic gnoseology. He appreciates her idea to analyze the director’s work according to various ways of cognition and bind them together by the theme of darkness. As Kempna-Pieniążek notes, Werner Herzog tries to discover the truth about reality in crisis during his ‘lessons of darkness’.
Keywords:
Werner Herzog, documentary, gnoseology, RomanticismReferences
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Wojciech Siteksitek.wojtek@gmail.com
University of Wroclaw Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4550-7679
PhD, he works at the Institute of Journalism and Social Communication at the University of Wroclaw. His academic interests include the ideological structure of American cinema and video games, and also the social phenomena of video cassettes.
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