More than 700 people filled Iowa City’s Englert Theatre on Sunday night to hear the legendary voice of Werner Herzog. The German filmmaker and author was greeted with nearly a minute of applause, and received two standing ovations before the night was out.
Infinite Dream
Lecture
Werner Herzog
Cinema Savant
Presented by
Hancher
,
The Office of Performing Arts and Engagement,
Iowa City Book Festival,
Prairie Lights,
Refocus Film Festival, and
The Englert Theatre
Tickets
Tickets will be available at https://refocusfilmfestival.org/ and are subject to venue fee and sales tax
Refocus Film Festival passholders $30
General public $40
Sunday, October 15, 2023, 7:30 pm
Sold Out
Presented in collaboration with The Englert Theatre, Refocus Film Festival, Prairie Lights Bookstore, and Iowa City Book Festival
Part of Hancher's Infinite Dream festival
Legendary film director Werner Herzog will receive FilmScene’s Cinema Savant award and appear in conversation to discuss his life in film. Herzog will visit as part of a five-city U.S. book tour (New York, Boston, Iowa City, Los Angeles, San Francisco), and will read from his soon-to-be-released autobiography, Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir.
The multi-hyphenate polymath Academy Award-nominated director (Aguirre, the Wrath of God; Grizzly Man; Fitzcarraldo: Encounters at the End of the World) tells in his inimitable voice the story of his epic artistic career in a long-awaited memoir that is as inventive and daring as anything he has done before. Born in Munich on September 5, 1942, Herzog made his first phone call at seventeen, and made his first film at the age of nineteen. Since then, he has produced, written, and directed more than seventy feature and documentary films. Herzog has published more than a dozen books of prose and directed as many operas. He has been memed and celebrated in pop culture (The Mandalorian). He lives in Munich and Los Angeles.
Each ticket purchased will come with a hardcover of Herzog's new autobiography, Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir.
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Hancher is introducing a new multidisciplinary festival — Infinite Dream — from Oct. 11 to 21, at various venues around Iowa City.
Through the lens of the arts, the festival explores the complex fabric of the American Story: grand accomplishments, disruptive failures and potential for excellence.
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