Werner Herzog’s “Rogue Film School”
Posted on October 6, 2009 in Filmmaking 360 | 3 Comments
If you always wanted to go to film school but where turned off by learning all those pesky filmmaking skills, you’re in luck!
Werner Herzog just opened his “Rogue Film School.” Yes the same Werner Herzog who directed Aguirre, Grizzly Man and the new Bad Lieutenant. The same Werner Herzog who threatened to kill Klaus Kinski and had been shot at while conducting an interview and going on as if nothing had happened.
Related, but more practical subjects, will be the art of lockpicking. Traveling on foot. The exhilaration of being shot at unsuccessfully. The athletic side of filmmaking. The creation of your own shooting permits. The neutralization of bureaucracy. Guerrilla tactics. Self reliance.
Censorship will be enforced. There will be no talk of shamans, of yoga classes, nutritional values, herbal teas, discovering your Boundaries, and Inner Growth.
— Rogue Film School | Read The Full Article
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Many of these topics described are ‘unlearnables’.
Most of the audience described will not learn this stuff while sitting in a hotel conference room.
That said, it sounds like great entertainment!
That’s all it sounds like to me, entertainment. It sounds like it’s just Herzog mentally jacking off while he talks about his experiences making movies… not actually talking about HOW to make movies.
I just read an article in Vice where Herzog mentioned him opening a film school, I guess seminars are a film school of sorts, but this isn’t what I expected.
It’s a great idea in general for filmmakers, though… so many of us make great films that certain people *love* but at $10 a pop to see it in theaters or $20 per DVD it’s hard to make much money back.
But $1400 (fingers crossed) per person for a seminar to teach people how the film was made in depth, that might be something to shoot for. A good way to finance another film even.