Venice Film Festival Iconoclastic will honor German director Werner Herzog – Whose work includes “Agnire, God’s anger,” “Fitzarldo” and Nosafaratu the Vampire ” – with its 2025 Golden Lion for a lifetime achievement.
Herzog said in a statement, “I feel deeply honored by Venice Bienle to receive the lifetime achievement honorary golden lion.” “I have always tried to be a good soldier of cinema, and it looks like a medal for my work: Thank you.”
“However,” Herzog noticed, “I haven’t gone into retirement.”
“I work as usual. A few weeks ago, I ended only a documentary, ‘Ghost Elephants’ in Africa, and at this time, I am shooting for my next feature film, ‘Bucking Fastard’ in Ireland. I am developing an animated film, which is based on my novel, ‘The Twilight,’ and I am still a creation.”
Venice Artistic Director Alberto Barbara called the director “a physical filmmaker and indefinite hymker”, “he said that” he continuously crosses the planet Earth, pursuing the Hitharto unseen images, tests the ability to test our ability, which is beyond the presence of reality, and does an unnecessary information for a higher information. New German cinema with films like “Signs of Life,” “Nosafartu the Vampire,” “Aguire, The Khrir, The Khrd of God” and “Fitzacraldo,” Bad Lieutenant, “Port of Call: New Orleans” and “Grizley Man”.
Barbera said: “They have never done by testing the boundaries of the film language, taking into account the traditional difference between the documentary and the story, as well as a radical probe into the subjects of communication, the relationship between images and music, and propose a radical investigation of nature and its unavoidable corruption.”
Barbera stated that Herzog is “the last heir of the great tradition of German romanticism” with a career, which is “both attractive and dangerous because it involves total commitment and puts itself on the line at the point of physical risk, where the destruction is constantly dug.”
The upcoming 82nd edition of Venice will run on 27-September. 6.
