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Cave of forgotten dreams : [DVD] humanity's lost masterpiece /

Contributor(s): Language: English Subtitle language: English, Spanish Publication details: [Los Angeles, CA] : Creative Differences Productions, Inc. ; [Australia] : Distributed by Rialto, Vendetta Films, [2011].Description: 1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inSubject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Credits/In the Ardeche -- First exploration -- Long forgotten dreams -- Pont d'Arc -- Crooked finger -- Audible images -- Awakening of the modern soul -- Underground chambers -- Hunting and the mystery of the Minotaur -- Homo spiritualis -- Visions, voice, and humanness -- Post script/End credits.
Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Peter Zeitlinger ; editors, Joe Bini, Maya Hawke ; music, Ernst Reijseger.
Narrated by Werner Herzog.Summary: Overcoming considerable technical challenges, iconic director Werner Herzog takes viewers into the interior of Chauvet Cave in southern France where the world's oldest cave paintings--hundreds in number--were discovered in 1994. These 32,000-year-old artworks--pristine and astonishingly realistic drawings of horses, cattle, and lions--come alive in the torchlight, as Herzog muses on this extraordinary place, the nature and purpose of Paleolithic art, and its creators. For Herzog, these paintings present perhaps the earliest manifestation of our primal desire to communicate and represent the world around us, which leads him to wider metaphysical contemplations on evolution and our place within it, and ultimately on what it means to be human.
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Visual Material Visual Material Whitecliffe Library Audio Visual General DVD 257 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 0012581

Originally produced as a motion picture in 2010.

Credits/In the Ardeche -- First exploration -- Long forgotten dreams -- Pont d'Arc -- Crooked finger -- Audible images -- Awakening of the modern soul -- Underground chambers -- Hunting and the mystery of the Minotaur -- Homo spiritualis -- Visions, voice, and humanness -- Post script/End credits.

Director of photography, Peter Zeitlinger ; editors, Joe Bini, Maya Hawke ; music, Ernst Reijseger.

Narrated by Werner Herzog.

Overcoming considerable technical challenges, iconic director Werner Herzog takes viewers into the interior of Chauvet Cave in southern France where the world's oldest cave paintings--hundreds in number--were discovered in 1994. These 32,000-year-old artworks--pristine and astonishingly realistic drawings of horses, cattle, and lions--come alive in the torchlight, as Herzog muses on this extraordinary place, the nature and purpose of Paleolithic art, and its creators. For Herzog, these paintings present perhaps the earliest manifestation of our primal desire to communicate and represent the world around us, which leads him to wider metaphysical contemplations on evolution and our place within it, and ultimately on what it means to be human.

MPAA rating: Rated G.

DVD ; Region 4, NTSC; 5.1 Dolby digital surround.

In English with optional subtitles in English SDH (subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing).

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