30. Film Festival della Lessinia
Bosco Chiesanuova (Italia)
23 August - 1 September 2024

A frozen blue sky silently hangs over a planet of liquid helium, a vast world full of life and sentient creatures. From the dying horizon of the Andromeda galaxy, the aliens left that planet and departed to land on Earth. In search of a new beauty, as the alien narrator recounts, they failed by replicating human errors on the earth's surface. Now man is about to embark on a specular exploration, in search of new worlds in which to survive. The Wild Blue Yonder, by Werner Herzog, is a cinematic creature that eludes every definition: overturning the perspective of documentary images and Nasa films, the director composes a visual and sound symphony that crosses science fiction to speak to a dying planet, to a sedentary humanity, forgetful of every poem, which dreams of opening shopping centres on other planets and abandoning the Earth forever. Brad Dourif, a solitary alien who contemplates the ruins of the non-places he erected, warns humanity of the involution subject to our desire to conquer every horizon, every peak, every form of life.

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  Werner Herzog

  Werner Herzog (1942) is a director, screenwriter, producer and documentary maker, considered one of the most important exponents of the new German cinema. Growing up in a small Bavarian village, he spent his childhood without ever seeing a film. After making his debut as a director at the age of nineteen, he made more than fifty films and documentaries, which earned him international fame and numerous awards, such as The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974) and Fitzcarraldo (1982), awarded at Cannes, and Signs of Life (1968), winner of the Silver Bear in Berlin. The FFDL has already presented many of his works, including Kalachakra, Wheel of Time, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, The Wild Blue Yonder and La Sufrière.