2005
Werner Herzog
The film .. “defies easy categorisation. It can be described simply as an experimental film or, more specifically, an experimental found footage film. It can also be called a multimedia collage. Alternatively, it can be classed as a poetic, fantastic “documentary”. This is because it combines non-fiction codes and conventions with an impossible narrative while also bringing together otherworldly archival imagery and found footage with rapturous, non-diegetic music. The result is a film with hypnotic power which immerses the spectator in a sublime world of cinematic time and space. As Brad Prager has suggested, “The Wild Blue Yonder is intended to be a mesmerising ecstasy” (1). At the same time, and as I will discuss in more detail shortly, one of the reasons The Wild Blue Yonder is hard to classify is because in addition to being aesthetically spellbinding, its narrative also achieves a particular kind of distancing effect. However one may wish to try and categorise it, The Wild Blue Yonder is the most unconventional and challenging work Herzog has hitherto made in the new millennium.”
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