Abstract
The author explains the reasons why she is seeking ethnographic films outside of ethnography. She writes about the role and status of ethnographic film on the basis of three documentary films by Werner Herzog, analyzing them from an anthropological perspective. She traces the director’s postulate concerning the inadequacy of the created images (including film images) to the state of civilization in film exemplifications, focusing on the artist’s epiphanic landscapes and his „mythical consciousness”. The proposal to go beyond the observational film based on a rational paradigm is drawn precisely from the work of the last romantic Master of cinema.
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