Signs of life. Tribute to Werner Herzog

Organized by the National Cinema Museum, in collaboration with the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Teatro Regio di Torino, Scuola Holden, Werner Herzog Film and German Film.
A tribute to one of the most interesting and extreme film directors of our times, including the complete retrospective of Herzog’s films, an exhibition of pictures, a cine-concert and a workshop.
The exhibit traces Herzog’s work on the set and identifies some “thematic” nuclei that repeatedly appear in many of his films; namely, the “signs of life” referred to in the title of the exhibit, the idea of kind of a cinema that is immersed in the landscape and loses itself in a journey that touches every corner of the earth. There are also the storyboard of the sequence of Scream of a Stone from his lyric production and shots taken by Lena Herzog on the sets of her husband’s most recent films.
The exhibition includes numerous projections and video installations. This portion, which opens with a contribution produced by Herzog himself for the Torino exhibit, shows Herzog behind the camera, interviews from different moments of his life, unreleased sequences of Herzog acting and the unreleased sequences in Fitzcarraldo, with Mick Jagger in the role that will later be played by Klaus Kinski. Among the rare sequences, his first “amateur” movie, filmed by a 16-year-old Herzog (a 6-minute silent western) and never before seen in public.
A book by Grazia Paganelli has been published, “Signs of Life. Werner Herzog and the cinema.”

The exhibit is available to be set up in other locations.