Documenting faith: physical devotion in Werner Herzog’s Pilgrimage (2001) and Wheel of time (2003)

To make visible the invisible has always been a key challenge to film. This paper will study how German director Werner Herzog, a regular explorer of the material / spiritual dichotomy, has managed to visualize something as invisible as faith in his documentaries Pilgrimage (2001) and Wheel of Time...

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Autor: Poch, Chantal
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/culture-2019-0004
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Palabra clave:Werner Herzog
Sacrifice
Gesture
Film studies
Documentary
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title Documenting faith: physical devotion in Werner Herzog’s Pilgrimage (2001) and Wheel of time (2003)
spellingShingle Documenting faith: physical devotion in Werner Herzog’s Pilgrimage (2001) and Wheel of time (2003)
Poch, Chantal
Werner Herzog
Sacrifice
Gesture
Film studies
Documentary
title_short Documenting faith: physical devotion in Werner Herzog’s Pilgrimage (2001) and Wheel of time (2003)
title_full Documenting faith: physical devotion in Werner Herzog’s Pilgrimage (2001) and Wheel of time (2003)
title_fullStr Documenting faith: physical devotion in Werner Herzog’s Pilgrimage (2001) and Wheel of time (2003)
title_full_unstemmed Documenting faith: physical devotion in Werner Herzog’s Pilgrimage (2001) and Wheel of time (2003)
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dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Poch, Chantal
author Poch, Chantal
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Werner Herzog
Sacrifice
Gesture
Film studies
Documentary
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Sacrifice
Gesture
Film studies
Documentary
description To make visible the invisible has always been a key challenge to film. This paper will study how German director Werner Herzog, a regular explorer of the material / spiritual dichotomy, has managed to visualize something as invisible as faith in his documentaries Pilgrimage (2001) and Wheel of Time (2003). By identifying a strong narrative and aesthetic focus on gesture, we will work on a possible reading on physical devotion as a contemporary substitute to sacrifice. Gesture, then, will become not only the visible translation of what we will argue is represented as a natural and universal faith, but also the apparatus enabling the feeling of the sacred.
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