Quanto legno rosicchierebbe un castoro [t.l.] (1976)
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
Director/Scenario: Werner Herzog – Director of photography: Thomas Mauch – Film editor: Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus – Production: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion – Country: Germania – Running time: 44’
The film:
“In How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck, the words become a pure combination of sounds, they are resonant metaphors in a free evolution, games of the perception that gain a theoretical value. Which is the limit of the word and the language? Which meanings is it possible to achieve If you carry to extremes their expression? The result is a film that challenges the rules of the communication but is also, simultaneously, a documentary about the faces and the almost unknown and isolated human landscape.”
[Grazia Paganelli (curated by), Signs of Life. Tribute to Werner Herzog, Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Torino; Il Castoro, Milano 2008, p. 82]
The film restoration:
The preservation of How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck was conducted by Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino and it was based on the original 16 mm negatives conserved by Werner Herzog Film Archive.
The preservation of the film is part of a project to valorize the works by Werner Herzog, including the homage Signs of life. Tribute to Werner Herzog organized by Museo Nazionale del Cinema in 2008.
The event showed the complete retrospective, the photography exhibition, a concert and a workshop and it was realized together with Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, the Scuola Holden, the Teatro Regio of Torino, the Werner Herzog Film and the German Film.
The preservation was carried out in 2007 at the laboratories ARRI and Geyer.
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