Fata Morgana
Werner Herzog, 1971, 79 min

Considered by many to be the quintessential masterpiece among Werner Herzog’s early works, Fata Morgana is an absorbing collection of images shot in an around the Sahara Desert combined with poetic voice-over and music by Leonard Cohen, all coming together to evoke an alien world that is actually our own. “Even though obviously shot on Earth, the film does not necessarily show the beauty and harmony and horror of our world, rather some kind of a utopia – or dystopia – of beauty and harmony and horror.” – Werner Herzog

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Screening as part of our Histoire(s) du cinéma series