phantasmagoria \fan-taz-muh-GOR-ee-uh\, noun:
1. A shifting series or succession of things seen or imagined, as in a dream.
2. Any constantly changing scene.
Phantasmagoria is from French phantasmagorie, from phantasme, “phantasm” (from Greek, from phantazein, “to make visible,” from phantos, “visible,” from phainein, “to show”) + -agorie, perhaps from Greek agora, “assembly.”
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…but let me say that there are some very basic skills that any
filmmaker must have. First of all, learn languages. One also needs to
be able to type and to drive a car. It is like the knights of old who
had to be able to ride , wield a sword and play the lute. At my
utopian film academy I would have students do athletic things with
real physical contact, like boxing, something that would teach them to
be unafraid. I would have a loft with a lot of space where in one
corner there would be a boxing ring. Students would train every
evening from 8 to 10 with a boxing instructor: sparring, somersaults
(backwards and forwards), juggling, magic card tricks. Whether or nor
you would be a filmmaker by the end I do not know, but at least you
would come out as an athlete. My film school would allow young people
who want to make films to experience a certain climate of excitement
of the mind. This is what ultimately creates films and nothing else.
It is not technicians that film schools should be producing, but
people with a real agitation of mind. People with spirit, with a
burning flame within them.
(From Herzog on Herzog
if we are paying attention about facts, we end up as accountants, if you find out that yes, here or there, a fact has been modified or has been imagined, it will be a triumph of the accountants to tell me so. but we are into illumination for the sake of a deeper truth, for an ecstasy of truth, for something we can experience once in a while in great literature and great cinema, i’m imagining and staging and using my fantasies. only that will illuminate us, otherwise, if you’re purely after facts, please buy yourself the phone directory of manhattan, it has four million times correct facts, but it doesn’t illuminate.
—- herzog
from new york time sunday ,july 1, 2007
werner herzog is still breaking the rules