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Early in Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Werner Herzogpoints out that the artist appears to be capturing a sense of movement, an almost “proto-cinema” style of representation where a beast is drawn with 8 legs instead of four, which suggestsmovement, said “For them, the animals perhaps appeared moving, living [...] almost a form of proto-cinema."For Herzog, these drawings felt like "frames from an animated film."
Protocinema was named to embody motion and cognition, after a Werner Herzog observation, in which he refers to The Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave paintings as almost "proto-cinema" in style of representation - capturing a sense of movement, "not unlike the futurist paintings of the early 20th century whereby a figure was captured moving through space and time."Proto-cinema is a term that does not bear cinematic conventions, it suggests a form that tackles the issues in film relating to the concepts of truth and fact as well as reality and representation. The curiosity to see beyond and within human life is existent in Herzog's films. Just as early photographs and films reflected the possibilities and limits of the photography in motion, Herzog's films are surveys into the ontology of film. Herzog's relationships with films and filmmaking are the only personal and autobiographical aspects of these films.
People in the Old Stone Age have their own ways to understand the world. In Cave of Forgotten Dreams, two theories by which people know the world had been mentioned: liquidity and penetrability. Liquidity means that objects can transform into each other while penetrability means objects can choose either to communicate or not. Maybe, people painted because art works made by human not only has a larger ability to transmit messages than languages created by human, but also can communicate with future.Comparing with wall painting, with the development of digital technology, we use computers and cellphones to transmit messages in the effect of modern technology, which makes messages are stored and transmitted more easily. However, sometimes we have to accept some messages without willing.
As for wall painting, the observation and imagination of these artists were the same as ours. We feel closer to the drawings on the walls of Chauvet than the painting of, say, an Egyptian mural. These artists are not remote ancestors; they are brothers. They saw like us, they drew like us; we wear essentially the same clothes against the cold. But despite their proximity, there is something fundamental that cuts us off from them. The time they lived in connected everything. They lived in an enormous present, which also contained past and future. A present in which nature was not only contiguous with them, but continuous. They flowed in and out of a continuum of everything around them; just as the animals flow into and out of the rock. And if the rock was alive, so were the animals. Everything was alive. And perhaps this is what truly separates us: not the space of time, but the sense of time. In our minute splicing of our lives into milliseconds, we live separated from everything that surrounds us. Do you know who made your clothes, or even what they are made of? "We are locked in history; they were not," says Herzog.
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Chauvet cave in southern France contains 30,000 years old primitive frescoes and fossilized ice age mammals, but the opening was sealed by falling rocks until scientists stumbled upon it in 1994. A team of scientists and documentary makers entered the cave. In their own method, they explore the prehistoric way of knowing and expressing things, the birth of art and civilization, and the curious people who surround the caves today. The documentary Cave of Forgotten Dreams records one such incident in Chauvet Cave.
The documentary made viewers feel the beauty of art thousands of years ago, but also expressed their concerns about the development of industry today. Modern industry has eroded prehistoric sites, a nuclear power plant has been built near Chauvet cave, and hundreds of crocodiles live in an ecosystem of cooling water. Chauvet cave is threatened with future flooding. To convey the feeling of beauty and call for the protection of the ecological environment is the main theme of this film.
The scientists used technology to create a 3D map of the cave, which is about 1,300 feet long from front to back.But technological restoration is not the ultimate goal of scientists. Their ultimate goal is to reconstruct the past and let the present know what happened here. Scientists are not only using technology to find the cave, but are also going back to ancient times, using the backs of their hands and faces to sense the wind blowing out of the cave.Exploration here every day thoughts and emotions of scientists the impact caused by staff in the cave feel himself become small, artificial light to illuminate the whole cave, some scientists felt a strange, irrational feeling, like a pair of eyes, and they, as they enter the disturb of the paleolithic artists' creation. The cave is an organic combination of the landscape outside, and in this landscape, there is a musical atmosphere that not only modern romantics, but Stone Age people may have felt in the same way, like cave painters, who seem to be speaking to us from a familiar but distant universe. The most notable features of the cave are the frescoes, animal skulls and stalactites of various shapes. Murals are the most characteristic of the three landscapes.Imagine the ancients lighting a fire in the cave, casting shadows on the mural, and dancing with the mural in the glow and moving natural light.Since the cave itself is not flat, ancient artists used it to create in 3D painting. What is more amazing is that the ancient artists showed the dynamic movement of animals by drawing many legs, which undoubtedly made the murals more vivid. The most impressive picture in the mural is that of four horses running at the same time, it reminds me of the galloping horse drawing by the Chinese painter Xu Beihong. The two paintings share the same characteristics, both of which adopt bold and unconstrained lines and freehand brushwork, and focus on depicting the charm and temperament of horses. The horse in the painting is vigorous and light. It has the aesthetic feeling. The skulls in the caves were arranged in a deliberate way, probably representing a place of worship that had been eroded by water and soil to resemble pieces of fine porcelain.
The process of making this documentary was also difficult. The cave is under the watchful eye of the French government and is completely off-limits to the public. Herzog had special permission from the French culture ministry to enter, but it was also strictly controlled: they had to wear certain clothes and shoes, could not communicate with the outside world, could not touch anything, and could only move within the built walkway. The crew can't be more than four people, which means that only the director, cameraman, sound engineer and an assistant are allowed in. Each person has their own job, and the director has to operate portable, non-heating lighting equipment. All equipment must be battery-powered, no wires. After the 3D camera assembly is large, it is difficult to enter the hole, so it is assembled in the hole. Under such conditions they were allowed to film for six days, four hours a day.
Herzog's documentary, shot in a narrow space, also has a dramatic effect. It is a pilgrimage through French cave paintings 30,000 years ago, which makes the film more surreal and artistic style beyond time and history.Background music is creative, it is full of wildness and power, combined with the documentary images so that the audience better back to the ancient times.When those prehistoric murals unfold before your eyes, in addition to beauty, is shocked, we marvel at the greatness of human creativity.
3d docu. sheer beauty.
3D
制作精良的,介绍法国南部的Chauvet岩洞里,有三万年前的原始壁画的3D纪录片,那些史前的壁画是令人惊叹,喜欢这类题材的可以看看。
3D
3.5 結語挺讚。
将岩画类比大银幕。借助岩壁的起伏作画并重复相叠,形成立体感与动感,仍然是比对电影。
让人感动!
极简 迷人 配乐赞 能看3D就更完美了 尼姆计划不如预期的好 竟然更喜欢这部
粗犷的肩扛和手提摄影配上3D技术估计可以让人眩晕,光影中洞内的壁画配着华丽的女高音相当迷人。赫尔佐格依旧执迷于对未知神秘的探索,关于3000年前古人的灵魂和认知,但更多的只是停留在表面上的美景上。★★★
Whoever decide to make this 3D is a genius
解释避无可避的错时性,更恼人的是解释通达的建构之终点与摧毁只是一纸之隔。赫尔佐格通往电影之途总是将镜头瞄准遥远本身,这么说是因为他不一定是前往了地理上的世界终点,更有人文地标的所谓的世界终点。
看不进去
感觉就是深夜昏昏欲睡的看了一部关于史前艺术的纪录片。
估计是看太多自己吃不消了。
3D好看
多加1星给那些岩壁上的画,古人们竟有如此高超的技巧,印象派毕加索!
Cave of Forgotten Dreams,多好的名字啊!
荷素是個神經質,只有他才能給這個紀錄片配上這樣一個結局。
赫尔佐格什么时候开始拍这么工整的纪录片了啊?
有点做作,略失望