How Werner Herzog Masters Documentary Storytelling

The shaky camera-work at the start almost made me miss the great observations that you had to share - just a heads-up for your future camera person's work.

The bear fight... how cute, it's like me playing with my cat :p

Damn this is weird, I saw this movie in filmschool 10 years ago, and I could swear I remember hearing Timothy and his girlfriend screaming while being eaten by the bear. The power of suggestion of this movie has created artificial memories...

So much value in your videos, thank you so much

This was very insightful. I wasn't a big fan of Herzog's documentaries before, but this really got me to see his personal approach and the philosophy behind his work. Thank you very much for making this. I really want to get into documentary film making and this is a great start.

Deep 👏 But the footage you were editing was too shaky 😐

what worries me about Herzog's ecstatic truth is that he is human, and as humans we have prejudices, so are his pushed truths just reinforcements of stereotypes and prejudices that he holds ? does he reinforce "truths" that was all think are really, and actually blind us to the real truth?
It's like how people believe carrots are good for eyesight because, jokingly, the british announced thats how they were able to see german planes in WW2, while using the newest technology of radar.

I would love to see werner explore himself in a documentary.

Amazing, new to editing and storytelling, great insights here

The guy managed to work with Klaus Kinski on multiple movies, he has to be some sort of master film maker

Great stuff.

Sven...you made me search for the audio

I really admire your work every single video and knowledge you are sharing!
The respect and your passion for filmaking inspiring us...thank u for this!

Herzog is a perfectionist and great film maker for sure..

The moment during Fitz filming when Herzog went to his hut and retrieved a chocolate bar and ate a bite infront of Kinsky and silenced his fit was when you should know what a devil Herzog is.

This man loves his work deeply. And enters the subject and let's it tell the story.

Yet my Netflix is full of bullshit superhero movies. Sigh -.-

Grizzly bear is my favourite. Guess if he had the funding from Hollywood a listers. Bow down this guy is a genius

crying

who is here again after seeing The Mandalorian trailer?

You literally sounds like fucking Werner Herzog. The narration in this video made me hyperventilate bro. Amazing editing

Video editing is a complicated profession.

I love Herzog's work. Dude doesn't let fear stop him.

Herzog treats everyone, especially the “freaks” and “weirdos” with such respect and dignity.

Lovely!

It's a lonely but wonderful road Werner shows us. You simply must spend a lot of time in solitude, far away from any media to find the ecstatic truth...

Werner telling this insane and sad lady never to listen to the tape is something I will never forget. He was both creating a dramatic moment and being honest. Truth and drama is terrifying.

Probably I would be alone on this, but for me the whole Grizzly Man documentary is wrong. I felt from the beginning Timothy was playing like a little kid, acting like kind of superior creature in a place where he does not belong bothering others animal's home till he crossed too many lines he just got what sadly we allready know. I do not know any, but ask any bbc or natural geographic documentaries professionals what do they think about Timothy and his "work" and talk about the respect you may have all time for each animal everywhere. And to make it "better", they went out after the bear to kill him! - Really very unfair story. I really felt unfair and mad at the end.

Outstanding. Thanks for this.

What’s the first musical piece in the beginning of the video

Excellent. Thankyou.

That bear… losing its bowels and sphincters at such a crucial and intense moment ! That’s primal fear…. that’s looking at death right in the eye !

"I don't use a storyboard, I think it's an instrument of the cowards".
- Werner Herzog.

Herzog is probably one of the most insane filmmakers, and at the same time the most dedicated at the moment to shoot a movie. Over time he's influenced many people through his films, and also working with Klaus Kinski helped him to grow up as a director, beyond from the dangerous, and friendly relation he used to have with Kinski.

Not to downplay the rest but this really made me realize that you NEVER EVER wanna take on a bear. If a bear thinks you need to die, you die.

Great artist but not my style.

I think the devil lives within his works.
He isn't about much but extreme commando film making.
He is revered for what?
Because he isn't affected or afraid of his friends dying while he lives.
All you morons idolizing a murderer.
Sick minds love sudden the unexpected and the death .
Some like that saying.."at least he died doing what loved. "
It doesn't apply to sacrificed thespians or animals he watched as they suffer this horrible human.

Fuck you Herzog.

I love the opening song! What is it?

There is something incredibly powerful about showing people's reaction to violence and suffering rather than violence and suffering directly.

Brilliant, moving insight. I learned of Herzog through Masterclass, I bought his film making master class before the website deleted it because they went subscription-only. I got a lot out of the portion I finished and have admired Herzog ever since.

He's a genuine nut-case
just like Kinski.😎

The most shameless self promoter since TE Lawrence.

Your voice and tone actually sounds a little like Herzog's :)

He has been such a good negotiater with the white diamond that right now I'm here in Guyana 🇬🇾 wishing if I could get to talk about some way forward exploring the amerindian cultures,that will be grateful 🙏

Thank you

"They inspire me to look for meaning beyond what's on screen."

I've heard many things about Herzog. I don't think I ever heard anything that made him feel so human. The way he used inference to drive home how horrific this attack was, all done tastefully to the point of minimalism, really captures how much he didn't want to exploit the tragedy. Yet his brilliance as a filmmaker was utilized in full effect to make you understand its severity regardless. Excellent analysis, and thank you for showing us a side to Herzog a lot of us might be ignorant of. I admire the work of many filmmakers who I'm sure would've handled this subject with far less grace.