German Film Festival: Focus Werner Herzog
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| Tue 5 Apr ’11, 6:00pm |
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| Wed 6 Apr ’11, 6:00pm |
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| Thu 7 Apr ’11, 6:00pm |
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| Sat 9 Apr ’11, 6:00pm |
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| Wed 13 Apr ’11, 6:00pm |
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| Wed 20 Apr ’11, 6:00pm |
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| Wed 27 Apr ’11, 6:00pm |
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Where: The Film Archive, 84 Taranaki St, Te Aro, Wellington Show map
Restrictions: All Ages
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- General admission: $6.00
- Booking fees may apply
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Twelve documentary films. Don’t miss our tongue twister contest!
Visionary – Extraordinary – Documentary
This year’s German Film Festival, presented by the Goethe-Institut, will focus on Werner Herzog, one of Germany’s most important film makers of New German Cinema, showing a large spectrum of his impressive documentary films.
The list of descriptors for the filmmaker, Werner Herzog, tells its own story: madman, adventurer, obsessive. In order to find images that no one had ever seen before, he headed into the hottest desert, the thickest jungle, the coldest ice. In "The White Diamond", Herzog takes us on a journey over the rainforest of Guyana with a teardrop-shaped airship. In "Wodaabe – Herdsmen of the Sun", he leads us into the Sahara desert to view the most handsome men in the world. Watch these beautiful men in their extravagant make-up and costumes who dance and sing for their women.
In his film "How Much Wood Would A Woodchuck Chuck", we join the Livestock Auctioneering Championship in Pennsylvania. This inspired us to run our own tongue twister contest based on the title of this film. Make your own video with either the tongue twister in English - “How Much Wood Would A Woodchuck Chuck If A Woodchuck Could Chuck Wood? A Woodchuck Would Chuck As Much Wood As A Wood Chuck Could, If A Woodchuck Could Chuck Wood” - or in German - “Der Cottbuser Postkutscher putzt den Puttbuser Postkutschkasten, und der Puttbuser Postkutscher putzt den Cottbuser Postkutschkasten” - or any other tongue twister in any other language!
Send your video (20 MB max) to arts@wellington.goethe.org by 27 March 2011. We’re sure you can do better than us! Have a look at our Goethe-Institut New Zealand Facebook page! The winning video will be shown after the film.
Be in to win:
- First prize: 13 DVD package of Werner Herzog’s documentaries, plus two tickets to the screening of How Much Wood Would A Woodchuck Chuck on 6 April at 6 pm at the Film Archive in Wellington.
- Second prize: two tickets to the screening of How Much Wood Would A Woodchuck Chuck and a bottle of bubbly.
- Third prize: two tickets to the screening of How Much Wood Would A Woodchuck Chuck
The selection panel’s entirely subjective decision will be final. Prizes will only be awarded to people in New Zealand at the time!
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