Pellegrinaggio [t.l.] (2001)
Pilgrimage
Director/Screenplay: Werner Herzog – Director of photography: Jorge Pacheco – Film editor: Joe Bini – Music: John Tavener – Production: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion – Country: Germany – Running time: 18’
The film:
“Only the pilgrims, in the struggle of their journey around the world, are able not to lose the path. Even if our planet was frozen or dry, they would be guided by their prayers, the suffering, the fervor and the sorrow. This is how Pilgrimage, a small masterpiece of intensity and poetry, starts, totally aimed at a representation of the landscape which is, more than anything else, the expression of the human professionalism. Between expanses of ice and cliffs lashed by the waves, the film looks like an homage paid by the man to the submerged and continuous song of the world in its ecstatic splendor, a symphony of images following one another, looking for the human spiritual heart, the uncertain balance rooted in the history, in the stones, in the centuries-old water, in the rhythmic echo of the wind.”
[Grazia Paganelli (curated by), Signs of Life. Tribute to Werner Herzog, Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Torino; Il Castoro, Milano 2008, p. 113]
The film restoration:
The preservation of Pilgrimage was conducted by Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino and it was based on the original 35 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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