It’s hard to tell if the seminars will be like fanboy coms, with Herzog raking in the dough ($1450 X ?) or strictly selected experimental seminars/experiences. Either is fine, whatever his aim is, I’m not judging.
pretty expensive dream weekend
watchinshits.blogspot.com
That’s a lot of money he’s asking.
“As you see [filmmaking] makes me into a clown. And that happens to everyone — just look at Orson Wells or look at even people like Truffaut. They have become clowns.” -WERNER HERZOG EATS HIS SHOE
I still can’t believe the site linked here is legit, even though I’ve read about the press releases announcing it. Lines like “The exhilaration of being shot at unsuccessfully.” and “There will be no talk of shamans, of yoga classes, nutritional values, herbal teas, discovering your Boundaries, and Inner Growth” refer to events in his life or riff on older comments he’s gone on record saying, but seem too flip for him to endorse, even though I truly believe the guy’s got a sense of humor.
This sounds more like a strange cult than a film school. But, then again, Werner Herzog sounds like a strange cult more than an actual person most of the time. He does make some fine films, though.
Yeah, but he’s not looking for aspiring film makers, he’s looking “For those who have worked as bouncers in sex clubs…”
It is for people who have an affinity for the madness game, sort of like baseball camp for nutters.
The cost? Priceless!
Could it be Werner has found money is the medium or did Bernie ‘made-off ‘with Werner’s money too?
Here’s my tagline contribution:
‘Werner promises to do to you what he did to Klaus ….’
…..thanks for the link
>>Werner promises to do to you what he did to Klaus ….<<
Plot your demise in a Peruvian jungle?
///Plot your demise in a Peruvian jungle?\\\
…make one homicidal
The Herzog brand: somewhat Hemingway-esque, in fact Hemingway is on the reading list
Can a clothing line be far off?
This sadly whorey attempt at self-parody is difficult to understand.
This sadly whorey attempt at self-parody is difficult to understand.
HAHAHA!
This is cheap considering ahat people like Syd Field charge.
sounds very interesting, he might thrive on being challenged, not fanboys/girls, or then again…
THE ENIGMATIC ECSTASY OF WERTHER HEDGEHOG (a tale repeated)
Werther Hedgehog is one prickly customer. He doesn’t suffer fools gladly. No sir, he does not! As i found to my cost. One day- was it in a February? (it was bleak, it was grey, i have not forgotten the weather then, though my mind has been dazed since)- he certainly made me look foolish on an internet question + answer session. Some cynic might say he didn’t need to work hard to do so! Oh how i came to wish they’d chosen one of the alternative questions i’d sent (some of which were asked by others + appreciatively received by him). But such is fate, for all is predestined and free will is but a myth.
Now i made the mistake of using the word “adventures” in connection with his life. A mistake indeed, for he considers the word colonialist. I’d merely intended it to mean unusual experiences (as is only right and proper, according to my dictionary, i must hasten to add). But there i was, shamed before a multitude for inadvertently promoting colonialism.
My other error; well yes, i admit i must have been dumb. Mindful of his statement that his well-known character Kipper Hauter’s lack of spiritual-religious awareness proves God doesn’t exist, taken together (quite intriguingly, i thought) with Hedgehog having just done a documentary on Buddhist monks, i asked what expectations he had of an after-life- to which he simply replied “how should i know?”.
Now usually i try not to take offence, am quite an easy-going chap, but in this case i’m sure you’ll understand. Oh, the derisive hoots of laughter his reply must have caused, replicated at so many thousands of computers, and all at my expense! The porter in Murnau’s Last Laugh had an easy time of it in comparison. Well of course such ignominy is far too much for any self-respecting fellow, however thick his skin, to bear. It will come as no surprise to the discerning reader that i slept not a wink for a week.
And so, I challenged Hedgehog to a duel with Conquistador pistols at an agreed spot on the Matterhorn, for having spitefully and egotistically caused me such deep public embarrassment (he at least condescended to afford me a brief discussion on the merits of Barry Lyndon, and i can tell you at that moment i was less sympathetic than usual to Ryan O’Neal’s come-uppance from the snivelling step-son), but the coward never turned up. Yeah, that’s right, Macho man didn’t show. I didn’t even get to enjoy the views and the famous shape of the mountain cos it was in cloud. My second, a local i’d chanced to meet, a fearless ski-jumper of unusually hirsute appearance, miniature stature, limited mental development, with one eye and poor hearing, 2 projecting canine teeth possibly developed during his upbringing by wolves in Transylvania (how i’d all too briefly relished the delicious irony of it all!) was not amused. And who could blame him? He was so upset he flung himself off that narrow ridge without checking his hang-glider properly (i’d very considerately thought it would be a fitting end for Hedgehog + his precious image if we conducted the duel airborn from our hang-gliders, strapped on the backs of ponies). He, the second, left behind him not only a grieving widow, who i later learned was a mute albino sculptress of Guatemalan Indian extraction he’d somehow rescued from a gang of Hanover pimps on the day of the Mount St Helens eruption, but also, imagine the bad luck of it!, quintuplet babes. And Hedgehog has carried on his illustrious career without so much as a backward glance. A cad and a bounder if ever there was one.
And now we come to the most painful part of this tale, an act of ignominious betrayal. The Puzzle of Kipper Hauter has for several years been one of my wife’s favourite films. A very sore point between us i can tell you! She, and i know this will take some believing, she actually refused to accompany me up the Matterhorn, on the grounds (how those piercing words still ring in my ears!) that “well darling of course i love you, you know that, but would it really be proper to cut down such a daring visionary? And mightn’t you catch cold?”. Well i hardly need add that since then, you only have to bring to mind that famously edited sequence of marital breakfast scenes in Citizen Kane to imagine the frosty descent of our relationship! Kane was lucky to have such a long table.
I was only glad Hedgehog didn’t agree to my original suggestion of Macchu Picchu, that would have been an expensive trip – he has the cunning of a fox, that one (his refusal led me into thinking he was serious about the Matterhorn!) Give him credit for wit + ingenuity if not for honour. I sent him 3 white ostrich feathers (had to be big to mark the extent of his cowardice) and i heard later he was allergic to ostriches, had come out in a rash, couldn’t stop sneezing for weeks, and his intended film on a tribe of head-hunting pygmies in the Congo was cancelled as a result. Take that, smart arse. And it proves there is a God after all.
So who’s aiming to apply from da auteurs?
Yeow, if it was around $500 it would be really tempting, still is somewhat tempting at $1450 but yikes that’s a lot of coin for something that’s impossible to put in a category, I guess the temptation lies withing the absurd unknown which could be one of those weekends you’d never forget.
I think Herzog’s best advice for filmmakers is to “go out and steal your own camera.” I think I’d prefer that to dropping 1500 in a weekend.
Please note Herzog’s official site has no direct link to the roguefilmschool.com site, which I find suspicious, despite Herzog’s site being vague and messy right now as it transitions to a new format.
http://wernerherzog.net/38.html
You sure he doesn’t drug everyone, drop you in the jungle and then film you trying to escape?
I’m still trying to understand exactly what that $1450 buys you. Not to mention hotel and food and gas.
From “FAQ”:
#6. The focus of the seminars will be a dialogue with Werner Herzog, in which the participants will have their voice with their projects, their questions, their aspirations.
Excuse, me? What? Not for $1450.
I agree with Simington, that website seems bogus.
why pay when you can simply show up
The LA Seminar ended today. I don’t suppose anybody went, or knows somebody who went? Would love to hear about it!
Werner entertains me greatly, but this sounds like an excuse for him to make a buck with a Werner Herzog Filmmaker’s Fantasy camp!!!
I’d love to meet him, but not to pay him $1450 for the privilege.
The first Rogue Film School seminar was earlier this month and Herzog’s web site has posted feedback from some of the participants
This is endlessly fascinating – thanks for the update Adam.
This testimonial snippit caught my eye:
If you know that there is only ONE taste…good taste.
“I am now pick locking myself into the industry”. I like that. I would add to that- don’t leave without the crystal and the jewels.
This guy sneaked in:
http://flavorwire.com/63595/first-person-going-rogue-at-werner-herzogs-rogue-film-school
Oh it’s so real, it’s for true men with true dreams, for those who have traveled on foot, for the faint-hearted – it’s almost like being Hemingway! But it costs $1450.
Adam Cook
Many of you have likely read the book, Herzog On Herzog. In it, Werner describes what his film school would be like if he ran one. Well, it has become a reality
I’m not an aspiring film maker, but this would be absolutely amazing.