Documenting faith: physical devotion in Werner Herzog’s Pilgrimage (2001) and Wheel of time (2003)

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  • dc.contributor.author Poch, Chantal
  • dc.date.accessioned 2023-01-17T06:54:31Z
  • dc.date.available 2023-01-17T06:54:31Z
  • dc.date.issued 2019
  • dc.description.abstract To make visible the invisible has always been a key challenge to film. This paper will study how German director Werner Herzog, a regular explorer of the material / spiritual dichotomy, has managed to visualize something as invisible as faith in his documentaries Pilgrimage (2001) and Wheel of Time (2003). By identifying a strong narrative and aesthetic focus on gesture, we will work on a possible reading on physical devotion as a contemporary substitute to sacrifice. Gesture, then, will become not only the visible translation of what we will argue is represented as a natural and universal faith, but also the apparatus enabling the feeling of the sacred.
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  • dc.identifier.citation Poch C. Documenting faith: physical devotion in Werner Herzog’s Pilgrimage (2001) and Wheel of time (2003). Open Cultural Studies. 2019 Feb;3(1):39-46. DOI: 10.1515/culture-2019-0004
  • dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/culture-2019-0004
  • dc.identifier.issn 2451-3474
  • dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/55290
  • dc.language.iso eng
  • dc.publisher De Gruyter
  • dc.relation.ispartof Open Cultural Studies. 2019 Feb;3(1):39-46
  • dc.rights © 2019 Chantal Poch published by De Gruyter. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Public License.
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  • dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
  • dc.subject.keyword Werner Herzog
  • dc.subject.keyword Sacrifice
  • dc.subject.keyword Gesture
  • dc.subject.keyword Film studies
  • dc.subject.keyword Documentary
  • dc.title Documenting faith: physical devotion in Werner Herzog’s Pilgrimage (2001) and Wheel of time (2003)
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